Projects

1 - 10 of 311 results

Sorteren op
Search term:

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 environment Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Yannick Devos, Karin Nys
History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
Coastal zones, including riverine estuaries, have always constituted contact zones where people connected and interacted, thereby exchanging thoughts and goods. This connectivity as well as the dynamic coastal environment made these communities highly responsive to change and innovations. People continuously adapted to new situations and influences (trade, migration, climate, sea-level rise…), which stimulated the social resilience and the ...

Landscape Archaeology of the Great War: a Non-Invasive Approach Ghent University

Marc Van Meirvenne
Department of Environment, Department of Geography, Department of Soil Management, Department of Archaeology

The front zone of World War I left deep traces in the landscape, but also the landscape influenced the course of the war activities.The idea is that by reconstructing the evolution of the landscape a better understanding of this mutual influence will be obtained and can be used to set up a valuation map of potentially valuable locations or phenomena.

An Archaeology of Comparative Colonialism: material culture, institutions, and cultural change in Malta, c. AD 1530–1910 Ghent University

Wim De Clercq
Department of Archaeology

The project aims to produce a novel, material culture-led narrative of daily life in Malta, AD 1530-1910. Archaeological analyses of artefacts and space shall be integrated with archival evidence to produce a social interpretation, which shall be viewed through the prisms of colonial institutions and identity formation. The project culminates in a diachronic comparison of colonialism under three ruling groups.

 Dendara in the shadow of the temple. Cultural and natural landscape archaeology of an ancient Egyptian city from Prehistory to Late Antiquity KU Leuven

Yann Tristant
Archaeology, Leuven
This project aims to investigate the archaeological site of Dendara, one of the most important cities in Upper Egypt during antiquity, in order to address the question of the sustainability of an ancient community in the face of Nilotic-Egyptian environmental, social and economic challenges from Prehistory to late Antiquity. The project is set around four key interconnected archaeological areas, crucial to a greater understanding ...

Dendara in the shadow of the temple. Cultural and natural landscape archaeology of an ancient Egyptian city from Prehistory to Late Antiquity KU Leuven

Yann Tristant
Archaeology, Leuven

This project aims to investigate the archaeological site of Dendara, one of the most important cities in Upper Egypt during antiquity, in order to address the question of the sustainability of an ancient community in the face of Nilotic-Egyptian environmental, social and economic challenges from Prehistory to late Antiquity. The project is set around four key interconnected archaeological areas, crucial to a greater understanding of the ...

L'Ancienne Belgique. Museums, archaeology, and the creation of national identity in Belgium (1870-1940). University of Antwerp

Gerrit Verhoeven
Centre for Urban History, Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES)
Up until recently, the history of archaeology as a scientific discipline was seriously biased, as experts predominantly focused on the more spectacular excavations abroad - in Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, or Egypt - while the rise of "backyard" archaeology in one's own country was largely ignored. Drawing on the rich - yet barely scrutinized - archives of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, the current project aims to analyze how the ...

Aanvulling van de Onderzoeksbalans archeologie, hoofdstuk Romeins Update Research Inventory Archeology, Chapter Roman Period Ghent University

Wim De Clercq
Department of Archaeology

On December 11, 2008, the first version of the chapter ‘Roman period’ of the Archaeological Research Balance (1.0) was published online. This instrument aimed to provide a dynamic overview of archaeological research into this period, which would be continuously supplemented with new data.

However, updates have been lacking, and has now become an urgent necessity. Over the past 15 years, there has been tremendous growth in ...

Archaeological Synthesis Research 2019 - Conflict Archeology of the Second World War in Flanders Ghent University

There has been tremendous progress in the field since the early 21st century
of the conflict archeology of the First World War (Van Hollebeeke,
Stichelbaut et al. 2014) various initiatives of the Flemish Government (de Meyer
and Demeyere 2006, Dewilde 2006, Dewilde, de Meyer et al. 2007, Dewilde,
Verboven et al. 2016), a growing academic interest in universities ...