The late Qing Reformists were a Chinese political faction that advocated for a transition from monarchy to constitutional monarchy in the 1890s, and rose to prominence by leading the Hundred ...read more
The Middle Bronze Age in Crete is a period of demographic expansion, stunning material cultural production, and growing interaction with the broader Eastern Mediterranean. The archaeological deposits associated with this ...read more
Cappadocian is a mixed language which is diachronically descended from Greek but has borrowed heavily from Turkish with which it has been in contact for eight centuries. From a typological ...read more
Located at the intersection of cultural history and history of science, this project studies the cultural embedment of meteorology (that is, approaches to the prediction of weather and the explanation ...read more
If philology was queen of the sciences in the 19th century, this project surveys her kingdom. PhiQoS examines its fields, labourers, and idols, its modes of exchange and structures of organisation, as ...read more
Places and spaces designed for social dance often had an ephemeral quality between 1756 - 1830 in the Southern Netherlands and the Pays de Liège. Before 1800 real dedicated ballrooms ...read more
Dating archaeological sites is often challenging due to a poor preservation of datable organic materials (bone, plant material, …), especially in the dry and acidic environment of the coversand area ...read more
MesoMag aims to expand understanding of the Mesolithic beyond commonly researched wetlands. By combining environmental magnetism, archaeological prospection, and environmental archaeology, the project will develop novel survey approaches to study ...read more
Past vegetation evolution is generally studied using pollen analyses from lake sediments or peat bogs. Such sedimentary archives dating to the middle and late Holocene period are largely missing in ...read more