Projects
The role of social memory processes in community formation during the Roman Imperial Period (25 BC - c. 300 AD) in Pisidia (SW-Anatolia) KU Leuven
The main questions this project answers revolve around what it meant for Pisidian social groups (SW Asia Minor) to be part of the Roman Empire in terms of actual impact, and how they used social memory processes to (re)negotiate their existence within this dynamic world. In chapter 1, we demonstrate the negative impact of modern social memory processes on our understanding of Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Pisidia by deconstructing the ...
Galilee during the Second Century AD. A period of Political, Socio-cultural and Economic Change. KU Leuven
At The Crossroads: Biocultural interactions in Neolithic Belgium and the peopling of Western Europe Ghent University
"At The Crossroads" aims to study the Neolithic period in Belgium, an area located at the heart of the migratory routes through Europe and Great Britain. Agriculture came to northwest Europe during the Neolithic through two waves: a western route following the Danube River and a southern route along the Mediterranean. Archaeological evidence suggests these two Neolithic cultures replaced the region's Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and ...
Unraveling past urbanisation: geoarchaeology brings to light the invisible record of towns in Northwestern Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The funerary landscape of the greater Dayr al-Barsha region (Middle Egypt). Developing socio-archaeological approaches to ancient Egyptian cemeteries. KU Leuven
Network for Agent-based modelling of Socio-ecological systems in Archaeology (NASA) KU Leuven
The end goal of this research network for the period 2020-2024 is to gather an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers to collect and compile ABM elements (implementation modules, techniques, approaches, etc.) and organise them as an open modelling library. The targets of this network are: 1) identify and compile crucial modelling topics for the library; 2) collect and develop best practices and modelling guidelines; 3) develop ...
In Sickness and in Health. Health and Quality of Life in Roman imperial to late Roman and middle Byzantine Sagalassos KU Leuven
Who was the healthiest, the Roman Imperial to Late Roman (1st- early 5th century AD) or Middle Byzantine (11th-13th century AD) population at Sagalassos (Pisidia, SW Anatolia)? That was the question this Ph.D. research started with. Yet, a second question was added – why is the one population healthier than the other? –, because it is more interesting to explain differences in health than to merely asses these. As it is not possible to ...
CRIME – CRemation or Inhumation of ancient populations? A Multidisciplinary question at the European level Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This research focuses on some of the most iconic Slovenian Bronze and Iron Age burial grounds, ...
"Romancing the stone". Provenance, working and use of stone in a stone-less landscape. Ghent University
This research analyses the form, function, distribution, findcontext, date and provenance of stone tools(querns, grinds- and whetstones,...) from early-historical sites (mosly Roman) in the flemish-Dutch coastal area and in the valleys of scheldt and lys (sandy flanders) where no outcropsof quality stone exist and stone had to be imported. Apart from taxonomical questions, also socio-economisch questions are answered.