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Malin Holst

Malin Holst (HND, BA, MSC) is the Director of York Osteoarchaeology Ltd, which she founded in 2003. Malin started to excavate in Britain in 1987 at the Raunds Area Project. Malin has been teaching bioarchaeology at the University of York since 2003.

“I decided to become an archaeologist at the age of eight when visiting an excavation in Switzerland where I saw an archaeologist taking photos of the site while dangling from a crane. I am interested in people and thus skeletons - people from the past. The best part of my work is the variety - being out digging one day, teaching students another, analysing a huge range of skeletons from different periods, with different pathology and burial contexts and finding out as much as I can about these individuals and populations.”