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Barbara Veselka
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Key Interests

  • Cremated remains

  • Vitamin D deficiency

I finished my first master (in Archaeology of MesoAmerica) in 2000. In 2012, I finished my second master, in Osteoarchaeology, and started my PhD research in 2013 while working as a physical anthropologists on commercial projects. This enabled me to combine commercial archaeology with academic research, whereby I could do my PhD research and bring the commercial work up to an academic level. I love working with bone, inhumations and cremations, and I am always looking for the mysteries hidden in the human skeleton.

Main Publications

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Veselka, B., G. Capuzzo, R. Annaert, N. Mattielli, M. Boudin, S. Dalle, M. Hlad, C. Sabaux, K. Salesse, A. Sengeløv,  E. Stamataki, D. Tys, M. Vercauteren, E. Warmenbol, G. De Mulder, C. Snoeck 2021. Divergence, diet, and disease: the identification of group identity, landscape use, health, and mobility in the fifth- to sixth-century AD burial community of Echt, the Netherlands, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13(6).

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Veselka, B., M.B. Brickley and A.L. Waters-Rist, 2021. A joint medico-historical and paleopathological perspective on vitamin D deficiency prevalence in post-Medieval Netherlands, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 32.

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Veselka, B., Hoogland, M.L.P. & Waters-Rist, A.L. 2015. Rural rickets: vitamin D deficiency in a post-Medieval farming community from the Netherlands, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 25: 665-675.


Veselka, B., van der Merwe, A., Hoogland, M.L.P. & Waters-Rist, A.L. 2017. Gender-related vitamin D deficiency in a Dutch 19th century farming community, International Journal of Paleopathology 23.


Veselka, B. & Lemmers S.A.M. 2014. Deliberate selective deposition of Iron Age cremations from Oosterhout (prov. Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands): a ‘pars pro toto’ burial ritual, LUNULA. Archaeologia protohistorica, XXII: 151-158.

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