Rachael Hall
PhD candidate
- Name
- R.A. Hall
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- r.a.hall@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3009-7301
Rachael Hall is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.
More information about Rachael Hall
Leiden Archaeology Blog
See also
Office days
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Research
Rachael is a PhD candidate in the project “Embodied Inequality: Transforming Archaeological Knowledge of State Formation, Social Disparity, and Health Inequality”. She will investigate the emergence and development of biological inequalities in ancient populations by combining novel exploratory biochemical techniques with the direct skeletal evidence of stress, disease and survivorship.
Rachael is a member of the Leiden Open Science Community.
Curriculum vitae
Rachael received an interdisciplinary BSc from Maastricht University in 2015 focusing on physics, math and conservation science for cultural heritage. She began her career in archaeology at Leiden University, where she graduated in 2019 with an MSc specialising in Human Osteoarchaeology. Prior to starting her PhD, Rachael worked as a contract osteoarchaeologist, and as both a researcher and temporary laboratory assistant at the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology, Leiden University.
PhD candidate
- Faculteit Archeologie
- Archaeological Sciences
- Bio-Archaeology
- Carballo-Pérez J., Matić U., Hall R., Tyson Smith S. & Schrader S.A. (2025), Tumplines, baskets, and heavy burden? Interdisciplinary approach to load carrying in Bronze Age Abu Fatima, Sudan, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 77: 101652.
- Olszewski J., Hall R.A., Kootker L.M., Oldham N.J., Layfield R., Shaw B., Derksen L., Manders M.R., Hart T. & Schrader S.A. (2023), Osteological, multi-isotope and proteomic analysis of poorly-preserved human remains from a Dutch East India Company burial ground in South Africa, Scientific Reports 13: 14666.
- Hall R.A., Woude D. van der & Schats R. (2022), Out of hand: prevalence and joint patterning of hand and wrist osteoarthritis in medieval Dutch populations . 23rd Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, Online. 17 September 2022 - 18 September 2022. [conference poster].