The pre- and protohistoric togué of the Niger alluvial plain, Mali
Schmidt, A.M.
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Schmidt, A. M. (2009, November 11). The pre- and protohistoric togué of the Niger alluvial plain, Mali. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/14330
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Annette Margaretha Schmidt was born on 21 November 1967 in Leiden, the Netherlands. She completed her secondary education at the Rijnlands Lyceum in Sassenheim, where she obtained her VWO diploma in 1986. Till 1987 she studied History at the University of Leiden, followed by a MA in Prehistoric Archaeology that she concluded in 1992. During her training she did, among other countries, extensive archaeological fieldwork in Mali. After a year of being employed at the Dutch Archaeological Services (ROB) she returned to Leiden University in 1994 for her PhD research, funded by a grant from the
Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO).
Before finishing her PhD thesis she was appointed in 1998 by the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden as field director for the international excavation in Dia, Mali. Since 2002 she has been working as curator of the African
department at the museum, continuing her affiliation with Mali in several cultural heritage projects financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
