The now submerged Roman sanctuaries of Colijnsplaat and Domburg on the isle of Walcheren have yielded the most extensive collection of votive stones found in Northern Gaul. They bear testimony ...read more
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
With a generous grant of the Whilte-Levy Foundation for Archaeological Publications (Harvard) a multi-author team is publishing the final reports from rescue excavations at the Phoenician-Punic site of Carthage that took place ...read more
The site of Falerii Novi in the Middle Tiber Valley (Italy) represents one of the finest available opportunities for the archaeological study of the long run development of urbanism in ...read more
Since 1999 a Syro-Belgian excavation team led by Prof. Joachim Bretschneider has been exploring the past of Tell Tweini (Ancient Gibala) on the coast of Syria. After eleven years of ...read more
The prospection and evaluation of former battlefields of the Great War or the First World War (WW I) poses specific challenges. For several reasons, large-scale excavation campaigns of this conflict ...read more
In the wake of the Roman legions, ceramic building materials conquered the Roman North. The tradition of producing building elements out of clay and petrifying them by firing was largely ...read more
Since the commercialisation of archaeology in Flanders, the sector has experienced a surge in the acquisition of archaeological data. Despite this exponentially growing data set, our knowledge about the early ...read more
As a spin-off of the Middelburg-project, this research examines the role the exchange of specific forms of material culture (Valencian floor-tiles and pottery, paintings…) played in the construction and continuation ...read more