Andrea Waters
Guest Researcher
- Name
- Dr. A.L. Waters
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- a.l.waters@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Western University, Canada, and a Guest Researcher at Leiden University. She previously co-directed the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology in Leiden's Archaeology Faculty.
Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Western University, Canada, and a Guest Researcher at Leiden University. She previously co-directed the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology in Leiden's Archaeology Faculty.
Office days
Flexible, not at the Faculty on a regular basis.
Research
Dr. Waters-Rist’s expertise includes the isotopic reconstruction of dietary practices, including breastfeeding and weaning, in past populations and the analysis of dental and skeletal diseases and morphological variants. She works with human skeletal material from various geographic areas and temporal periods, predominately post-Medieval Dutch populations, mid-Holocene Siberian hunter-gatherers, and pre-Columbian Nicaraguan agriculturalists.
Teaching
Anyone interested in Human Osteoarchaeology is invited to enroll in the free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) entitled "The Truth in Our Bones", taught by Dr. Waters-Rist and offered via Leiden University and Coursera. This course launches every month and consists of 5 modules. In the 1st module it is shown how age-at-death, sex and stature can be estimated by the close examination of (archaeological) skeletal remains. In the 2nd and 3rd modules it is shown how human bones can provide information about the diseases and injuries with which people suffered and what they ate. In the 4th and 5th modules, it is shown how the human skeleton provides information about the kinds of activities in which people engaged and about how they migrated and moved around their landscapes.
Guest Researcher
- Faculteit Archeologie
- Archaeological Sciences
- Bio-Archaeology
- Waters A.J. & Palmer J.L.A. 30 August 2017 - 3 September 2017. Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. European Association of Archaeologists. Maastricht. [conference attendance].
- Palmer J.L.A., Waters A.L. & Lieverse A. 19 April 2017 - 22 April 2017. American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting. American Association of Physical Anthropologists. New Orleans. [conference attendance].
- Palmer J.L.A., Quintelier K. & Waters A.L. 17 April 2017 - 19 April 2017. Paleopathology Association North American Meeting. Paleopathology Association. New Orleans. [conference attendance].
- Palmer J.L.A. & Waters-Rist A.L. 8 September 2017 - 10 September 2017. British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Liverpool. [conference attendance].
- Veselka B., Hoogland M.L.P. & Waters A.L. (2017), The impact of sociocultural habits on childhood vitamin D deficiency visible as residual rickets in five post-Medieval populations from the Netherlands. Paleopathology Association North American Meeting. New Orleans. [lecture].
- Palmer J.L.A., Waters A.L. & Hoogland M.L.P. 6 July 2016 - 8 July 2016. Working Your Fingers To The Bone: An interdisciplinary conference on identifying occupation from the skeleton. Coimbra. [conference attendance].
- Waters-Rist A.L. (18 June 2014), Dogs Were a Prehistoric Woman's Best Friend, Too. Interviewed by Viegas J.. [interview].
- Hoogland M.L.P. & Waters-Rist A.L. (2012), A Multi-Component Analysis of the 1840s Potato Famine in Middenbeemster: Archival, Archaeological and Osteological Results. (Middenbeemster). [lecture].