Funding for research on Middenbeemster skeletal assemblage

The proposal for advanced and extensive research of the Middenbeemster skeletal assemblage Osteoarchaeology of the Dutch Middenbeemster Cemetery: Lifeways of a colonizing Farming Community during the Little Ice Age has been favourably evaluated, and the ERC (European Research Council) will provide funding of the research for up to two years.

The Marie Curie International Fellowship gives individual top-class researchers from beyond the European Union the opportunity to perform research, bringing specialised knowledge into the European Union. The grant will allow Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist, a Canadian researcher currently working at Leiden University, the opportunity to perform a much more thorough investigation of the Middenbeemster skeletons than was previously possible, applying state of the art scientific techniques such as isotope analysis, histology, DNA analysis, advanced palaeopathology etc. which can ultimately be used to reconstruct the lifeways of the people buried in Middenbeemster from the 17th-late 19th century.