Elisavet Stamataki

Key Research Interests
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Bioarchaeology
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Stable isotopes
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Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy
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Osteology/ Palaeopathology
In 2018 I finished my first MSc in Human Osteology and Palaeopathology with a specialisation in Stable Light Isotope analysis at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. For my master thesis, I used the stable light isotope analysis of Carbon (δ13C) and Nitrogen (δ15N) to investigate the diet of a Spanish medieval population from the cemetery of Sant Esteve de Canapost.
In 2020, I finished my second master’s in Prehistoric Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. For my master thesis, I studied the human skeletal remains of a collective burial that excavated in a chamber tomb near the Mycenaean palace of Dimini in Magnesia, Greece.
In 2018, I started a joined PhD at the VUB and ULB as a part of the CRUMBEL project and in 2020 I received an FWO PhD fellowship. My project’s title is ‘’Death and Fire: Investigating changes and specialisation in cremation practices in Belgium during the Metal Ages’’. I love doing chemical and structural analysis on human bones and I am always looking for the mysteries hidden in funerary practices.
Grants and Awards:
2021-2022: FWO PhD fellowship fundamental research
2020: VUB Doctoral School travel grant to participate in AAPA conference at Los Angeles, USA.
2016-2017: Scholarship from the public benefit foundation of Lilian Voudouri for MSc in the United Kingdom.
International membership:
-European Association of Archaeologists
-American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Background
MSc Human Osteology and Palaeopathology,University of Bradford
MA Prehistoric Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki