Publications
Een veranderend klimaat in de archeologie KU Leuven
Meer en meer opiniemakers stellen zich openlijk de vraag wat we eigenlijk hebben aan de menswetenschappen: tijdens pandemieën vertrouwen we op virologen en biostatistici, de klimaatcrisis denken we op te vangen door ingenieurs nieuwe technologische oplossingen te laten bedenken. Nochtans verdienen de humane wetenschappen een positie naast de exacte, ook omdat ze wel degelijk een maatschappelijke meerwaarde hebben. Zeker voor de archeologie ligt ...
Çatalhöyük West and the Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic Transition in Central Anatolia KU Leuven
Transforming Landscapes of Southwest Anatolia: Modeling Social and Environmental Change from the Middle to Late Holocene Using Predictive Land-use and Cropland Reconstructions KU Leuven
The suitability of landscapes to accommodate various human subsistence strategies is dynamic, and the result of complex interactions between natural and human factors that are difficult to reconstruct from palaeoenvironmental data alone. The long-term multidisciplinary nature of datasets common to archaeological research, though, can provide unique insights into landscape change over time. In particular, the material record can help to mitigate ...
Do economic activities impinge on Roman urban matrices in Asia Minor? A new style/function debate KU Leuven
Kırsal alanları nasıl belgeleriz? KU Leuven
The Social Metabolism of Past Societies: A New Approach to Environmental Changes and Societal Responses in the Territory of Sagalassos (SW Turkey) KU Leuven
This chapter advances social metabolism as a suitable framework for interdisciplinary studies of human-environment interactions in the past. We apply this framework to the comparison of two case studies of environmental changes and societal responses in the area of Sagalassos (SW Turkey): the onset of the Bey\csehir Occupation phase during first millennium BCE and the Medieval Climatic Anomaly at the start of the second millennium AD. Both ...