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Past life and death in a Flemish town. An archaeo-anthropological study of burials from the medieval and post-medieval St. Rombout's cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th-18th centuries CE) KU Leuven
The excavation on St. Rombout's cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium yielded 4158 individual articulated remains in 3617 graves. The burials showed relatively extensive variation in the construction of the graves and treatment of bodies, expressed by the presence of a coffin or objects, the orientation and position of the body and the number of individuals in the grave. To provide a more in-depth picture of social organisation and funerary practices, a ...
Comparing maternal genetic variation across two millennia reveals the demographic history of an ancient human population in southwest Turkey KU Leuven
More than two decades of archaeological research at the site of Sagalassos, in southwest Turkey, resulted in the study of the former urban settlement in all its features. Originally settled in late Classical/early Hellenistic times, possibly from the later fifth century BCE onwards, the city of Sagalassos and its surrounding territory saw empires come and go. The Plague of Justinian in the sixth century CE, which is considered to have caused the ...