Dr. Dimitra Michael
BIOSOCIOPOLIS
I have worked extensively on human skeletal assemblages from Greece and I have experience on both singe and multiple burials. I have extensive experience on recording and analyzing stress, pathological and activity indicators on human skeletal remains. I have been trained on morphological biodistance analysis (non-metric traits) to infer phenetic distances/affinities between groups of people to offer insights on mobility and networking.
I have also a background on stable isotope analyses, particularly for the purpose of reconstructing dietary habits of past populations.
I am currently a Marie-Sklodowska Curie post-doctoral fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece. My project "BIOSOCIOPOLIS'' aims to develop a new understanding of how multiple socio-political transitions, representing different forms of urbanism, may impact on lifeways and deathways on a diachronic scale. The project will follow an integrated methodology combining macroscopic, theoretical and geo-chemical approaches. During my six-month secondment training at the BB-LAB (VUB), I will have the opportunity to expand my isotopic skills on inhumed and cremated human remains, for the purpose of studying human mobility.
Background
- 10/11/2022-2/10/2024: Marie Sklodowksa Curie post-doctoral researcher, in the REA funded project “BIOSOCIOPOLIS”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), School of History and Archaeology, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 3/9/2018-3/9/2022: Research Scientist, in the ERC funded project “The Fall of 1200 BC”, University College Dublin (UCD), School of Archaeology, Dublin, Ireland
- 1/4/2016-10/1/2017: Post-doctoral Research Associate, project’s subject “Exploring palaeodiet and palaeoclimatic conditions using isotopic techniques, on skeletal human remains from various sites of Greece” Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology/ Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon Unit, National Center for Scientific Research, “Demokritos”, Greece
- 01/06/2015- 31/12/2015: Research member of the project “Isotopic geochemical studies”. Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology/ Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon Unit, National Center for Scientific Research, “Demokritos”, Greece
- PhD: 2015, Thesis title: “Exploring activity and dietary patterns in Greek populations, from the Geometric Period until modern times”, School of Science/Department of Biology (Laboratory of Physical Anthropology), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Key Research Interests
- Social bioarchaeology; Socio-political bioarchaeology
- Historical Bioarchaeology
- Palaeopathology
- Biodistance non-metric analysis
- Palaeodiet and stable isotopes
- Human cremations
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