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Prof. Dr. Koen Deforce
Prof. Dr. Koen Deforce
koen.deforce@ugent.be
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3075-2564
Department
Department of Archaeology
Research group(s)
ARCHAEO - Archaeology
Other institution(s)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Research Focus
Archaeology
Research Region
Western Europe
Additional tags
Archaeobotany
palaeoecology
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Playing with fire: Disentangling anthropogenic and climate induced fire events during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in the sandy lowlands of Belgium and the southern Netherlands
(
2024
-
2027
)
WOODCHAR – 2500 years of woodland history in NW Europe studied through the analysis of archaeological remains of charcoal kilns.
(
2024
-
2028
)
ORG-ID. Identification and 14C dating of organic materials in archaeological ceramics
(
2023
-
2025
)
Looking down the well. A reconstruction of the vegetation in Flanders from the bronze age till the late medieval period based on palynological data from wells
(
2023
-
2025
)
The impact of early modern military conflicts on the forests of Northwestern Europe (16th – early 19th century)
(
2023
-
2025
)
LEAP. Learning from the past. The impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium
(
2023
-
2026
)
Wooden archaeological artifacts from Flanders from the prehistory till modern times
(
2021
-
2022
)
Projects as co-supervisor
MesoMag. A geophysical perspective on mesolithic land use in complex environments
(
2023
-
2027
)
PoTaRCh. Network for forest by-products charcoal, resin, tar, potash
(
2023
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2027
)
CarNHum. Neanderthals, early anatomically modern humans and carnivores. Deciphering their interactions through proteomics, paleogenetics and radiocarbon dating
(
2023
-
2026
)
Rapid climate changes during the Mesolithic. Impact on man and environment in the southern part of the NW European plain
(
2022
-
2027
)
The Falerii Novi project
(
2015
-
2027
)
Lateglacial and Holocene environmental evolution of the Middle and Lower Scheldt basin in northern Belgium. A pollen and diatom study
(
2015
-
2019
)
Projects as researcher
Woodland Dynamics in the Anthropocene
(
2021
-
2031
)
Fueling the Furnace. An interdisciplinary study of forest soils as geoarchaeological archives
(
2018
-
2022
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Dekoninck, Michiel, et al. “Fuelling the Roman Salt Industry : Developing a New Multiproxy Approach to Identify Peat Fuel from Archaeological Combustion Residue.”
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
, vol. 161, 2024, doi:10.1016/j.jas.2023.105892.
Deforce, Koen, et al. “A Collection of Roman Wooden Mouldings from Tongeren-Broek.”
SIGNA (BRUXELLES)
, vol. 13, 2024, pp. 21–25.
Martens, Marleen, et al. “Een Depositie van Vaatwerk in Koperlegering in de Noordelijke Periferie van de Vicus van Elewijt (Prov. Vlaams-Brabant).”
SIGNA (BRUXELLES)
, vol. 13, 2024, pp. 81–89.
Verwerft, Dieter, et al. “Kwetsbaar Funerair Erfgoed : Een Romeins Grafveld Langs de Sint-Trudostraat in Assebroek (Brugge).”
SIGNA (BRUXELLES)
, vol. 13, 2024, pp. 151–59.
Wang, Tianyi, et al. “Evidence for Parasites in Burials and Cesspits Used by the Clergy and General Population of 13th-18th Century Ghent, Belgium.”
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS
, vol. 53, 2024, doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104394.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Archaeobotany and Statistics
