Dr Maaike De Waal

Maaike S. De Waal (PhD, Leiden University) is assistant professor and head of the Field Research and Education Centre at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (the Netherlands). She is also a partner in ARGEOgraph, an archaeological company specializing in geoinformatics in archaeology. Previously, she was lecturing in archaeology at the University of the West Indies (Barbados). Her research interests include archaeological heritage management, applied archaeology, landscape archaeology, and Caribbean archaeology and heritage. ‘Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: past, present and future research directions’ (De Waal, M.S., Finneran, N., Reilly, M., Armstrong, D.V. and Farmer, K., Sidestone Press, 2019) is one of her recent publications.