Projects

The First Intermediate Period (FIP) is characterised by profound political and cultural change and a process of regional fragmentation, which only came to an end—at least politically—when the state was reunited in the Middle Kingdom (MK). The study of this process has long been the almost exclusive domain of philological and historical studies. This doctoral research aims to approach it from a different perspective by studying the ...

The cultural encounters between the Old and New Worlds are among the most infamous in human history. The Caribbean was the centre stage for interactions between cultures of dramatically different backgrounds, which after a turbulent colonial period eventually laid the foundations for the modern-day, multi-ethnic societies of the region. This project focuses on inter-community social relationships and transformations of island cultures, and ...

This research project is situated on the border between natural sciences, archaeology and art-history and contains the examination of painted objects. Different methods of analysis are used to investigate pigments, binders and supports. This project tries to solve different types of questions on objects from different periods (prehistory, middle ages, antiquity) and locations.