01/01/2013-31/12/2017: FWO-Flanders (total budget 295,000 euro) Middeleeuws Brugge en haar voorhavens. Een landschaps-archeologische benadering van het Zwin-debat [Medieval Bruges and its outports. A landscape-archaeological approach to the debate on the ...read more
The research aims at developing a time-efficient and cost-effective methodology for the 3D documentation of an archaeological excavation (and the archaeological heritage in general). To achieve this, the project investigates ...read more
Historiography begins with narrations of the ancient Greek historians Herodotos and Thucydides on the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, and subsequent historians tend to share their preoccupation with great actors of ...read more
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) prospection is, along with magnetometer prospection, earth resistance survey and prospection with sensors based on electromagnetic induction, one of the most widely used geophysical prospection techniques ...read more
The history of the Kongo area has been more thoroughly studied than that of any other region in Central Africa. We have unequalled insights in the area’s history of the last ...read more
In 2012 the Historical Archaeology Research Group started a collaborative project with the Free University of Amsterdam in order to investigate the Late Roman Archaeology of the Low Countries. The ...read more
This research project focuses on hand-shaped pottery in northern Gaul between the first century BC and the fourth century AD. It aims to characterize the production of hand-shaped pottery during ...read more
The region between Gent, Bruges and Aardenburg is characterised by surface clays of the tertiary formation of Asse. During the 11th-13th centuries, the slighty undulating cuesta-landscape of Zomergem, Knesselare, Oedelem ...read more
01/10/2012-30/6/2013: Internationalisation project of Ghent University: cooperation Ghent University and Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille III (total budget 1500 euro): Urban Culture and Urban Ideology in the Late Medieval Netherlands (main ...read more
Roman public baths have been described as markers for the Roman culture and the Roman way of life. The decline of the Western Roman Empire has hence been seen as ...read more