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Maria Liston
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Maria Liston, Associate Professor, received her BA in Classics from King College in Bristol, Tennessee and her MA in Classics from Indiana University. She then completed a BA and Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Liston pursues research as a skeletal biologist and archaeologist, focusing on the excavation and analysis of human remains and their morturary contexts. Since 1987 she has worked as the skeletal biologist for the Iron Age excavations at Kavousi, Crete, and various other projects in Crete. Since 2002 she has been participating in the excavation of the Iron Age site of Azoria in Crete. She also has directed the analysis of the remains of previously recovered British and colonial soldiers at Fort William Henry, in New York, and in 1996 conducted the first excavations at the fort in over 30 years.  She involves students in research and overseas study projects whenever possible.

Contact Information

Dr. Liston is on sabbatical until May 1, 2010.

She can be contacted via email: mliston@uwaterloo.ca.

 

Dr. Liston's publications include

2004 - [with John Papadopoulos] The Rich Athenian Lady was Pregnant: The Anthropology of an Early Iron Age Tomb Reconsidered. Hesperia 73:7-38.

2003 - [with Mextaxia Tsipopoulou and Lucia Vagnetti] New Evidence for the Dark Ages in Eastern Crete: An Unplundered Tholos Tob at Vasiliki. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 45:85-124.

2001 - [with B.J. Baker et al.] Repatriation and the Study of Human Remains. In Repatriation, Native Americans, and American Archaeology: A Reader, pp. 69-98 edited by Tamara L. Bray. New York: Garland.

1996 - [with B.J. Baker] Reconstructing the Massacre at Fort William Henry. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 6:28-41.

1995 - Report on the Human Skeletal Remains. In Metaxia Tsipopoulou and Lucia Vagnetti, Achladia: Scavi e ricerche della Missione Graeco-Italiana in Creta Orientale (1991-1993). Instituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Rome: Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale.

1994 - [with B.J. Baker] Military Burials at Fort William Henry. In Archaeology of the French and Indian War: Military Sites of the Hudson River, Lake George, and Lake Champlain Corridor, edited by David R. Starbuck. Adirondack Community College.

1993 - Osteological Appendix. In The Early Minoan Burial Cave at Ayios Antonios and some problems in Early Bronze Age Chronology in Eastern Crete, edited by D.H. Haggis. Studi Micnei ed Egeo-Anatolicie XXXI.