Researcher
Karin Nys
- Research Expertise:
- Information on : material culture in the Aegean and Cyprus during the Bronze and Iron Ages; interrelations in the Mediterranean world during antiquity.
- Keywords:History
- Disciplines:Settlement archaeology, Protohistoric archaeology, Landscape archaeology, Material culture studies, Archaeological science, Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant, Geoarchaeology
- Users of research expertise:
- Information on : material culture in the Aegean and Cyprus during the Bronze and Iron Ages; interrelations in the Mediterranean world during antiquity.
Affiliations
- Brussels Platform for Digital Humanities (Research group)
Member
From23 May 2018 → Today - Multidisciplinary Archaeological Research Institute (Research group)
Responsible
From31 Dec 1999 → Today - History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics (Department)
Member
From8 Apr 2019 → Today - History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2015 → 20 Oct 2022 - Earth System Sciences (Research group)
Member
From1 Jan 2009 → 1 Jan 2023 - History (Department)
Member
From1 Nov 2007 → 31 Dec 2014 - Art Sciences and Archaeology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2002 → 31 Dec 2014 - Art Sciences and Archaeology (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 1997 → 30 Sep 2002
Projects
1 - 10 of 14
- The Truth in the Tooth: Reconstructing and Comparing Human Life Histories in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of EuropeFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Welcome to the Dark Side - disclosing the invisible stages of medieval urbanisation through the integrated study of European Dark EarthsFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Medieval urban agricultural land use in Flanders and Brabant (6th-13th centuries AD): phytolith research as a novel tool for the understanding of cultivated soils in townsFrom1 Nov 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Phytolites research for the archaeological sites in the Brussels Capital Region.From1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: Brussels Capital Region
- Geoarchaeological research and coordination of paleo-environment studies for archaeological sites within the Brussels-Capital Region.From1 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: Brussels Capital Region
- SRP-Groeifinanciering: The Archaeology of Coastal Communities: social resilience, innovation and adaptation in landscape, settlement and material culture driven by migration and globalization, climate and environmentFrom1 Mar 2019 → 29 Feb 2024Funding: BOF - projects
- FWO Hercules MZW: A walk on the wild side of stable isotope biogeochemistryFrom1 May 2018 → 30 Apr 2022Funding: FWO Medium Size Research Infrastructure
- Infra-Red Analyses from Macro to Nano Scales. From Novel Self-healing Materials to Jurassic Dinosaur Bone CellsFrom1 May 2016 → 30 Apr 2020Funding: Hercules - Small and Medium size research infrastructure
- Glass recycling, past and present. A glass recycling model based on a multi-analytical approach to archaeological glassware from Cyprus in Late Antiquity (4th-7th century AD) in parallel to modern glass recycling issuesFrom1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: FWO fellowships
- Glass production and consumption in Cyprus during the late period (4th - 7th century AD)From1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2017Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
11 - 20 of 31
- The Iron Age Cypriot Pottery from Tell Tweini Field A(2019)Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia AnalectaVolume: 281
Authors: Karin Nys
Pages: 395-415Number of pages: 21 - To be purple or not to be purple? How different production parameters influence colour and redox in manganese containing glass(2019)
Authors: Anne-Isabelle Bidegaray, Stéphane Godet, Michel Bogaerts, Peter Cosyns, Karin Nys, Herman Terryn, Andrea Ceglia
- On the making, mixing and trading of glass from the Roman military fort at Oudenburg (Belgium)(2019)
Authors: Anne-Isabelle Bidegaray, Peter Cosyns, Bernard Gratuze, Herman Terryn, Stéphane Godet, Karin Nys, Andrea Ceglia
Pages: 2385-2405 - An in-situ XANES investigation of the interactions between iron, manganese and antimony in silicate melts(2018)
Authors: Anne-Isabelle Bidegaray, Andrea Ceglia, Maria Rita Cicconi, Van Thi Khanh Pham, Amandine Crabbé, El Amine Mernissi Cherigui, Karin Nys, Herman Terryn, Daniel R. Neuville, Stéphane Godet
Pages: 227-235 - Colouring and Decolouring glass, an Interdisciplinary Approach(2018)
Authors: Anne-Isabelle Bidegaray, Herman Terryn, Karin Nys
- Characterization of Archaeological Metal Remains in Micromorphological Thin Sections Using mu XRF Elemental Mapping(2017)
Authors: Barbora Wouters, Christina Makarona, Karin Nys, Philippe Claeys
Pages: 311-318 - Authenticity screening of stained glass windows using optical spectroscopy(2016)
Authors: Wendy Meulebroeck, Hilde Wouters, Karin Nys, Hugo Thienpont
Pages: 1-10 - The use of vitrum obsianum in the Roman Empire: some new insights and future prospects(2015)
Authors: Simone Cagno, Peter Cosyns, Andrea Ceglia, Karin Nys, Koen Janssens
Pages: 465-482 - Late antique glass distribution and consumption in Cyprus: a chemical study(2015)
Authors: Andrea Ceglia, Peter Cosyns, Karin Nys, Herman Terryn, Hugo Thienpont, Wendy Meulebroeck
Pages: 213-222 - Iron speciation in soda-lime-silica glass: a comparison of Xanes and UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy(2015)
Authors: Andrea Ceglia, Gert Nuyts, Wendy Meulebroeck, Simone Cagno, Alberta Silvestri, Alfonso Zoleo, Karin Nys, Koen Janssens, Hugo Thienpont, Herman Terryn
Pages: 1552-1561