Human land use and in particular deforestation has changed ecosystem pattern and processes of most of the terrestrial biosphere. It is therefore one of the elements used to ...read more
Rome organized her Empire via a network of cities, crucial in administration, social organization and economy. By the first century CE there were about 2,000 cities, and understanding them is ...read more
This research project will collect and evaluate all material and physical anthropological data from the cemeteries of Thorikos in an attempt to reconstruct social, ideological and political realities in ...read more
African Red Slip Ware (ARS) was produced from the 1st to the 7th century AD in the Roman provinces of modern-day Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya, and exported to the whole ...read more
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
The PhD project involves a study of the dental and skeletal remains from all Neolithic sites in Belgium to answer the following questions. Who were the Neolithic people of Belgium ...read more
Make an open access inventory of the human remains from archaeological research in Flanders using various paramaters to give archaeologists, physical anthropologists and
This project assesses the physical stress children in post-medieval Aalst faced, in relation to socio-economic status and living conditions. Historical sources show a low child survivor rate in poor families in this ...read more
This research aims at a critical review of the early silver metal extraction process in a proto-industrial context in order to gain a better insight into the ancient large-scale silver production ...read more
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