Projecten

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Climate change and human response at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Belgian Meuse basin (13,000-6000 cal BP)

2023

This interdisciplinary project aims at investigating climate variability on a local/regional level and its impact on human lifeways at the transition from the Pleistocene (Younger Dryas) to the Early Holocene in the Meuse ...read more
Archeologie
België
Lithic analysis
Mesolithic
paleoclimate
Prehistorie (steentijd)
LEAP. Learning from the past. The impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium

2023

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
14C dating
Archeologie
België
Bronze Age
Mesolithic
paleoclimate
paleoenvironment
paleomobility
pollen analysis
Prehistorie (steentijd)
Protohistorie (bronstijd, ijzertijd)
speleothem analysis
strontium analysis
Technological characterization and origins of the middle mesolithic in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt area. An inter-regional approach

2022

The Middle Mesolithic of the RMS area (Rhine – Meuse – Scheldt) is characterized by the sudden emergence around ca. 9,350 cal BP of completely new microlith types. The typical ...read more
Archeologie
Prehistorie (steentijd)
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
Archeologie
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Oudheid
Prehistorie (steentijd)
Protohistorie (bronstijd, ijzertijd)
Surveys en enquêtering
Veldonderzoek
Zuid-Europa
Wooden archaeological artifacts from Flanders from the prehistory till modern times

2021

Wood is the most important renewable raw material throughout human history. However, wooden archaeological objects are rarely studied and little is known on (pre)historic use of wood, compared to other ...read more
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Archeologie
België
Late Oudheid
Middeleeuwen
Oudheid
Prehistorie (steentijd)
Protohistorie (bronstijd, ijzertijd)
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
Archeologie
België
Environmental Studies
Geoarchaeology
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Geophysical prospection
Kwantitatief
Neolithic
past land-use
Prehistorie (steentijd)
Soil Physics
Surveys en enquêtering
Veldonderzoek
West-Europa
MEMOR. A database and ethical framework for human skeletons from archaeological contexts in Flanders

2020
The aim of MEMOR is to:

Make an open access inventory of the human remains from archaeological research in Flanders using various paramaters to give archaeologists, physical anthropologists and
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Archeologie
België
Ethiek en moraal
Hedendaags
Kwantitatief
Late Oudheid
Middeleeuwen
Oudheid
Prehistorie (steentijd)
Protohistorie (bronstijd, ijzertijd)
Surveys en enquêtering
ArcheOs. Research laboratory for biological anthropology

2020

The ArcheOs research laboratory for biological anthropology at Ghent University was established in 2020 within the Department of Archaeology. It aims to study the health, kinship, lifestyle and mobility of ...read more
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Afrika
Anthropology
Archeologie
België
Centraal-Europa
Comparatief
Geschiedenis
Hedendaags
Isotopes
Kwantitatief
Late Oudheid
Middeleeuwen
osteoarchaeology
Osteology
Oudheid
Prehistorie (steentijd)
proteomics
Protohistorie (bronstijd, ijzertijd)
Veldonderzoek
West-Europa
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
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Archeologie
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Geschiedenis
Hedendaags
Late Oudheid
Middeleeuwen
Oudheid
Prehistorie (steentijd)
Protohistorie (bronstijd, ijzertijd)
Regiostudies
Surveys en enquêtering
Veldonderzoek
Zuid-Europa
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
Archeologie
België
Comparatief
human impact
Kwantitatief
past demography
past land-use
Prehistorie (steentijd)
Scheldt basin
Surveys en enquêtering
Veldonderzoek