During the summer of 2014, a Stahl Endowment Fund was used to support an initial field research project, that aims to examine aspects of gender and age identity in the post-Medieval population of skeletons from the cemetery of Middenbeemster, through the analysis of skeletal markers of bone growth maintenance and activity-related stress. The individuals from the Middenbeemster cemetery provide an opportunity to study not only the dynamics of social identity over the life course, but also provide biological information and cultural insights on a society and region that has been neglected in academic literature.
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