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Elisabeth Smits is an archaeologist and physical anthropologist. She got her PhD in 2006 at the University of Amsterdam concerning the physical anthropological study of four roman cemeteries along the northern border of the Roman Empire. She held several post-doc functions at the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam. She has a long standing experience in burial archaeology comprising paleodemography, burial ritual, the reconstruction of health, diet and migration. In the last years she has been engaged in stable isotope studies in close collaboration with other specialists. She is lecturer and researcher in the department of Archaeology and lecturer and coordinator in de master of Forensic Science (‘Complex Crime Scenes’ and ‘Physical and Forensic Anthropology’) at the University of Amsterdam.