Northwestern Europe experienced rapid and intense climate variations during late Quaternary times. These climate variations profoundly affected the environment, and the effects are well reflected in vegetational changes. Past vegetations are reconstructed ...read more
The Western Harra Survey Project is investigating late prehistoric settlements, from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (7th millennium to early 3rd millennium BC), in the arid harra ...read more
The significance of coastal and estuarine areas for understanding former human life and palaeolandscapes is nowadays recognized internationally. The large preservation potential of these sites, on the transition of the ...read more
The primary aim of the project seeked to evaluate in detail how and to which degree the palaeo-landscape determined the prehistoric occupation and exploitation within Sandy Flanders, starting from the ...read more
Archaeological survey to study the diachronological organization of ritual and funerary monuments. The BOF research project 2003-2004, a cooperation between Ghent University and Gorno-Altaisk State University and funded by the ...read more
Exchange project for the promotion of education: valorisation of natural and cultural heritage in Altay. A small survey was performed in the Uymont Steppe (close to Ust-Koksa) in ...read more
Scattered across the Altay Mountains are thousands of surface structures – funerary monuments, ritual structures and petroglyphs – of different, mainly nomadic civilisations, from the Eneolithic to the Ethnographic period ...read more