Research Assistant
E-mail: saraelleskov@health.sdu.dk
Telephone: + 45 3112 9317
Education:
2023: MA Prehistoric Archaeology, SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen. Thesis title: Uncovering past tendencies for future insight: A comparative study of the research of Greenlandic Inuit remains from archaeological contexts.
2021: BA Prehistoric Archaeology, SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen. Title of BA project: Barnegrave i Middelalderens Danmark: en undersøgelse af barnegrave fra Sct. Clemens kirkegård og Sejet Ødekirkegård.
Employment:
2023 – present: Research Assistant, ADBOU, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark.
2023: Curator, National Museum of Denmark, Department of Prehistory, Middle Ages and Renaissance.
2023: Guest Lecturer, SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen.
2022: Archaeologist, National Museum of Denmark. Project: Activating Arctic Heritage: Human Experience in Norse Greenland.
2021 – 2022: Teaching Assistant, SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen.
2020 – 2023: Academic Employee, Anthropological Laboratory, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen.
2020: Archaeologist, Museum of Copenhagen.
2019 – 2023: Student Assistant, National Museum of Denmark.
2019 – 2020: Student Assistant, Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde.
2019: Student Assistant, Museum of Copenhagen.
Research Interests:
- Arctic archaeology
- Greenlandic Inuit and Norse osteobiography and paleodemography
- Methods in excavation of human remains in Greenland
- Research Ethics: Post-/decolonial methodologies
- Indigenous Knowledge
Selection of unpublished reports
Rensbro, H. & S.N. Elleskov, 2023, Nationalmuseets rapport fra arkæologisk undersøgelse i Rye Kirke og kirkegård 2019.
Mikkelsen, H. & S.N. Elleskov, 2020, Nationalmuseets rapport fra forskningsudgravning i Sorø Klosterkirke 2020.
Rensbro, H. & S.N. Elleskov, 2020, Rapport fra arkæologisk undersøgelse ved Herlufsholm Kirkes kor 2020
Mikkelsen, H. & S.N. Elleskov, 2020, Rapport fra arkæologisk undersøgelse af søndre korsarm ved Sorø Klosterkirke 2020
Rensbro, H. & S.N. Elleskov, 2020, Nationalmuseets rapport fra arkæologisk udgravning på Bevtoft kirkegård 2020.
Rensbro, H. & S.N. Elleskov, 2019, Rapport fra arkæologisk undersøgelse på Gråbrødre kirkegård 2018.