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  • 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

  • MEMOR. A database and ethical framework for human skeletons from archaeological contexts in Flanders

    2020

    The aim of MEMOR is to:

    1. Make an open access inventory of the human remains from archaeological research in Flanders using various paramaters to give archaeologists, physical anthropologists and
      2. ...read more
    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Contemporary
    • Ethics and morality
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Surveys

  • 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

  • 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

  • In search of the pristine environments in the lowland river system of Flanders for assessing the impact of past human occupation on current phosphate concentrations

    2019

    The Flemish region cannot cope with the guidelines set out in the European Water Framework Directive for good water quality, mainly due to excess nutrients. Over 80% of the rivers and ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Field research
    • human impact
    • past demography
    • past land-use
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Scheldt basin
    • Surveys

  • 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

  • MATCHeN

    2019

    MATCHeN is a TETRA research project funded by VLAIO. The aim of the project is to develop, test and evaluate an open, shared knowledge platform that allows Flemish social profit ...read more

    • Communication
    • Field research
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Surveys
    • Translation Studies

  • 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

  • Working on public-friendly access to archaeological knowledge and collections

    2019

    Dit rapport is het resultaat van het onderzoeksproject ‘Werken aan een publieksvriendelijke ontsluiting van archeologische kennis en collecties’, dat startte als een gezamenlijk initiatief van de minister bevoegd voor Onroerend ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • cultural heritage
    • Didactics
    • Dutch
    • Field research
    • Heritage
    • History
    • Public archaeology
    • Public history
    • Surveys