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Projects

Geographic and map based
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  • Building on the edge of the empire. A socio-cultural approach of rural stone domestic buildings on the northwestern edge of the Roman Empire

    2022

    Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • English
    • Geographic and map based
    • Late Antiquity
    • Western Europe

  • Mountains, mobility and memory

    2021

    The Apennine mountain chain in Italy is often described as a crossroads of cultures during the pre-Roman Metal Ages (ca. 3000-300 BC), but archaeologists know little about how, why and ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • Spatial organization, fragmentation and development of city-states in central Crete (Late Minoan II – Hellenistic period)

    2020

    In the last decade, Cretan archaeology made significant advancement in the study of the birth of City-States (the Greek poleis) that follows the decline of Bronze Age civilizations. After large ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Eastern Europe
    • Geographic and map based
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • Working the land, searching the soil. A geophysical framework for diachronic land-use studies

    2020

    Through an interdisciplinary approach, this project aims to redress current understanding of Neolithic land-use. Hereby, a synergy between archaeology, environmental studies and applied geophysics will provide insight into diachronic human-environment ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Environmental Studies
    • Field research
    • Geoarchaeology
    • Geographic and map based
    • Geophysical prospection
    • Neolithic
    • past land-use
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Soil Physics
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • Pollino archaeological landscape project

    2020

    The Pollino Archaeological Landscape Project is a research collaboration between the departments of Archaeology of the universities of Ghent (Belgium) and Groningen (The Netherlands), and the Gruppo Speleologico 'Sparviere' (Italy), ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Area studies
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • Ghent mapped

    2020

    Gemapt' is a geotemporal platform for sharing, presenting and using digital heritage collections in function of a participatory heritage work. This project is developed with a focus on Ghent: 'Ghent ...read more

    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Belgium
    • Communication
    • Contemporary
    • cultural heritage
    • Dutch
    • Geographic and map based
    • Heritage
    • History
    • linked open data
    • Public history
    • Quantitative
    • Urban history

  • Water landscapes of Turfan

    2019

    This research contains the water landscapes in the arid region of Turfan (Xinjiang, China). The focus will be both on the anthropological and cultural ties to the elements used to ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Asia
    • Far East
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Surveys

  • Back to the roots. Agroforestry and the rediscovery of Roman viticulture

    2019

    There is still a widespread view that Rome’s expanding economic influence over the Mediterranean in the Late Republic (ca. 200-50 BC) triggered a dramatic change in Italy’s wine industry. This ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Quantitative
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • WW II conflict archaeology in Flanders

    2019

    Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been enormous progress in the field of conflict archaeology, especially in the First World War. This was further reinforced by the ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Conflict archaeology
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Quantitative
    • Second World War
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • High tide, low tide: The late-medieval harbour of Bruges as a maritime-cultural landscape

    2019

    Between 2019 and 2024, an interdisciplinary team at Ghent University studies the role of Bruges as a late-medieval harbour and the maritime-cultural landscape stretching along the Zwin. This tidal inlet was ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Middle Ages
    • Northern Europe
    • Quantitative
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe