Past vegetation evolution is generally studied using pollen analyses from lake sediments or peat bogs. Such sedimentary archives dating to the middle and late Holocene period are largely missing in ...read more
CarNHum project is designed to investigate the interactions of Neanderthals, early anatomically modern humans and carnivores through proteomics, paleogenetics and radiocarbon dating. Firstly, through the identification of bone assemblages with ...read more
Agrigento was founded as a Greek colony, Akragas, in southwestern Sicily in the 6th century BCE, and is now protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as an outstanding example of Greek ...read more
This PhD-project studies the exploitation and management of woodlands during wartime and the impact of conflicts on the structure and diversity of forests, which played a major role in military ...read more
Although research in the last thirty years has offered more and more insight on the first archaic human presence in Eurasia, the research on the Lower Paleolithic in Belgium seems ...read more
The Bronze Age in Lower and Upper Mesopotamia was a time of major changes in power, culture, and society. New social and cultural ideas from this ...read more
This project aims to offer a comprehensive overview of structured depositions in settlement contexts during the Iron Age in Northwestern Europe. It seeks to deepen our understanding of the cosmology ...read more
During the Early and Middle-Late Holocene at least eight abrupt centennial-scale Rapid Climate Change events (RCC) have occurred, which have been globally identified by recent climate records. However, still little is ...read more
The aim of the 'Onderzoeksbalans Archeologie (Research Balance Archaeolgy) is to provide an up-to-date picture of the existing archaeological information for the various actors in the immovable heritage sector in ...read more
The ERC Consolidator project DAEDALOS aims to challenge the predominant metanarrative that uniformly sees monuments as an attribute of centralised, hierarchical political economies and top-down power structures, a view that ...read more