Excavations of the mastaba fields surrounding the pyramids at Giza (photo right) were undertaken by George Reisner in the 1930s.

This project seeks to analyse the skeletal remains from Reisner's excavations that are currently housed at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at the University of California, Berkeley.

Skeletal remains housed in Cairo are being studied by colleague Dr. Sary el-Din at the National Research Centre.

The results of the analyses will appear in a monograph on the Mastabas of the G2100 Core Cemetery, edited by Dr. Peter Der Manuelian of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to be published as Volume 8 in the Giza Mastaba series.