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Archaeology of Ancient Greek Music: from reconstructing instruments to deconstructing concepts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Archaeology of music is an interdisciplinary scholarly activity that partakes in archaeology and musicology and that specializes in the study of material evidence of music of the past. Its core activity consists of excavating, dating, analyzing and classifying remains of musical instruments. But it can start with the discovery of any physical trace of human sound-producing activity and reach all the way to investigating symbolism and cognition ...
Are we there yet? A review and assessment of archaeological passive airborne optical imaging approaches in the light of landscape archaeology Ghent University
Archaeologists often rely on passive airborne optical remote sensing to deliver some of the core data for (European) landscape archaeology projects. Despite the many technological and theoretical evolutions that have characterised this field of archaeology, the dominant aerial photographic surveys, but also less common approaches to archaeological airborne reconnaissance, still suffer from many inherent biases imposed by sub-par sampling ...
LiDAR and conflict archaeology : the Battle of the Bulge (1944-1945) Ghent University
Although conflict archaeology is now well established, the archaeological remains of many specific military confrontations are still to be explored. This article reports the results of fieldwork to document the site of the Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944-25 January 1945). The authors use drone-mounted 1m-resolution LiDAR and very high-resolution simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) methods to reveal more than 940 features within ...
On Rotating Positions in Archaeology, Art, and Architecture: Grindbakken Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
This article questions the usefulness of new container labels like ‘creative archaeology’ to denominate practices beyond more traditional understandings of art or archaeology. Such new labels risk to smooth out the differences between practices that take different positions in one of the many possible interfaces between art and archaeology. Terminology that does not provoke resistance because it masks disciplinary differences is less interesting ...
Environmental evidence from early urban Antwerp: New data from archaeology, micromorphology, macrofauna and insect remains Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Recent excavations along the Jordaenskaai, in the medieval burg area in central Antwerp, have provided a unique opportunity to explore the archaeology, economy, and environmental context of early medieval Antwerp. This multidisciplinary project examined structures and features that are radiocarbon dated to 760-970 CE in order to gain a better understanding of the use of human and environmental resources and the use of space at the dawn of this ...
Methodology in the evolutionary study of art : perspectives in philosophical anthropology, cognitive archaeology, and evolutionary theory Ghent University
Beyond the beam : evaluation and application of handheld X-ray fluorescence in archaeology Ghent University
Trying to break new ground in aerial archaeology Ghent University
Aerial reconnaissance continues to be a vital tool for landscape-oriented archaeological research. Although a variety of remote sensing platforms operate within the earth’s atmosphere, the majority of aerial archaeological information is still derived from oblique photographs collected during observer-directed reconnaissance flights, a prospection approach which has dominated archaeological aerial survey for the past century. The resulting ...
Exchanging Medieval Material Culture. Studies on archaeology and history presented to Frans Verhaeghe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This volume, a collaboration between the Flemish Heritage Institute (VIOE) and Brussels Free University (VUB), is a collection of twenty two papers on material culture offered to prof. em. Frans Verhaeghe by his friends and colleagues from Belgium, Britain, The Netherlands, France and Denmark. Grouped in three sections - material culture, landscape and settlement, theory - these papers represent Frans Verhaeghe's fields of interest and work, in ...