In this webinar, Dr. Jane Buikstra will first define bioarchaeology, the archaeological science approach taken to investigate the lives of those buried in the Phaleron cemetery. Excavated between 2012-2015 by the Ephorate of Piraeus and Islands under the direction of Dr. Stella Chryssoulaki, the Phaleron cemetery brought to light thousands of burials during the construction of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).
Dr. Buikstra will consider the Phaleron historical and archaeological contexts as well as up-to-date results of the Phaleron Bioarchaeological Project, a collaborative undertaking between the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Sciences of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Arizona State University, and the Ephorate of Piraeus and Islands.
To close, Dr. Buikstra will introduce viewers to a few of the people who had been interred in the Phaleron cemetery providing insight into the past lives of Greece.

About our speaker:

Dr. Jane Buikstra (PhD, University of Chicago) defined the discipline of bioarchaeology, an international field that enriches archaeological knowledge of past peoples. Her research encompasses bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology and paleodemography, spanning North America, the west-central Andes, Mayan Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean.  She has published more than 20 books and 150 articles and has mentored more than 55 doctoral students and is currently investigating the evolutionary history of ancient tuberculosis in the Americas via archaeologically-recovered pathogen DNA, and is Project Director for the Phaleron Bioarchaeological Project in Athens, Greece.

At Arizona State University, Dr. Buikstra is a Regents Professor and the Founding Director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences & American Academy of Arts & Sciences and served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), the American Anthropological Association, and the Paleopathology Association.

Dr. Buikstra is a Regents' Professor of Bioarchaeology at Arizona State University (ASU). She is also the Founding Director of ASU’s Center for Bioarchaeological Research and Project Director for the Phaleron Bioarchaeological Project in Athens, Greece. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. and American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is currently the president of the Center for American Archaeology and a Trustee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She has served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association, and Paleopathology Association. 

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