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Liston studying a skull

Lecture on the Archaeology of The Battle of Chaironeia

George E. Mylonas Lecture in Greek Archaeology
Maria Liston, Professor Emerita, University of Waterloo
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The Battle of Chaironeia: An examination of the skeletons from both the Theban Sacred Band and the Macedonian cavalry led by Alexander. Wound patterns allow for the reconstruction of previously unknown aspects of the battle.
 

Maria Liston

Liston studying a skull

Maria Liston 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 PhD in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee. She pursues research as a skeletal biologist and archaeologist, focusing on the excavation and analysis of human remains and their mortuary contexts. She recently co-authored The Agora Bone Well, a study of a deposit containing 449 infant and fetal skeletons, probably deposited by midwives working in Hellenistic Athens, Greece. This deposit included the oldest case of battered child syndrome known from the archaeological record. Recently she has begun work on a well from the Swiss excavations at Eretria, Greece that also has a large number of infant skeletons in the fill and promises to provide an important comparison to the Agora well. She also is currently documenting skeletons from an early Christian cemetery found in in the Sanctuary of Ismenian Apollo in Thebes. This cemetery was associated with an early hospice or hospital; many of the individuals buried there suffered from leprosy.