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archeougent.bsky.social
Department of Archaeology, Ghent University
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Maxime Poulain and @idegroote.bsky.social from @archeougent.bsky.social presenting their research at Les journées de la Societe d’antropologie de Paris @museedelhomme.fr

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

After a career of 42 years, colleague Frank Vermeulen, professor of Roman-Mediterranean archaeology, will retire on Feb 1. Prof. Vermeulen obtained his PhD at #UGent with a thesis on Roman habitation in sandy Flanders, and afterwards specialized in Roman-Mediterranean archaeology.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Dr. Maïté Rivollat presented the ROAM project on the genetic analysis of #Mesolithic and #Neolithic people from Belgium at the annual meeting of the Societe d’antropologie de Paris held this year at the @museedelhomme.fr @archeosugent.bsky.social @archeougent.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Our department is looking for a professor in Northwest European Prehistory! Join the #prehistory research group! jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Pr...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Vacancy at @archeougent.bsky.social. For #prehistorians to join our awesome research group with the best colleagues 😉

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Recently we performed the first #fieldwork in my #FWO postdoc project “playing with fire”. This time we sampled Late Glacial charcoal-rich soils to eventually reconstruct fire regimes and possible human impact in northern Belgium🔥 Next step: labwork!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

#Endtroducing my #twitter profile summary: I am a #medieval archaeologist at @archeougent.bsky.social, surveying the lost harbors of the Zwin, and turning history into a cycling adventure. I am also studying 16th-century historical maps, revealing secrets of Pieter Pourbus' map-making techniques

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Op 4/02 is de jaarlijkse Nieuwjaarslezing in de Minard in Gent. 🥳 Dit jaar neemt collega Ewoud Deschepper ons mee naar het vroegmiddeleeuwse Gent, van Karel de Grote en de Vikingen, maar ook boeren, handelaars en soldaten. De deuren open om 19u30, begin om 20u. Info: stad.gent/nl/cultuur-v...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Collega @sadimarechal.bsky.social maakte een podcast over de geschiedenis van baden 🛀 Erin vertelt collega @mpoulain.bsky.social alles over baden in de middeleeuwen (en meer! 🌶)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Onderzoek van onze master-student @archeougent.bsky.social haalt nu ook @vrtnws.bsky.social, met dank aan @wardschouppe.bsky.social!

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 New research! 🚨 Dr. Veropoulidou & colleague Prof. Maud Devolder reveal a new method to detect mudbrick remains in Bronze Age buildings on Crete using mollusk shells as part of her #ERC research. 🐚 This allows for easier studying of ancient architecture! 🏺 doi.org/10.1080/1461...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

So happy to be a part of the @clariahvl.bsky.social consortium which was just awarded with the FWO infrastructure grant. Cultural and biological heritage projects by @archeougent.bsky.social will benefit from its expertise for the years to come.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

🏆 Award-winning research! Congrats to Natan Heidbüchel, @mpoulain.bsky.social & Wim De Clercq for receiving the Editor’s Award from @SocMedArch for their article on 15th-century indoor lighting. Through #ExperimentalArchaeology, they revealed how people skillfully lit their spaces

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now! Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon! Paper here👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Hey Bluesky, let me introduce myself. I’m an archaeologist specialised in usewear/functional analysis of lithics currently doing my postdoc in @roam-ugent.bsky.social at @archeougent.bsky.social.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Allow us to introduce ourselves! We're the Ghent Archaeology Department, from the University of Ghent. We have people working on a broad range of activities, projects, and expertices ranging from the Paleolithic until the Post-Medieval period. Follow us and the our team here: go.bsky.app/6H5KWCj

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

📢ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED!📢 Submit by 20 Dec 2024 for ICAP2025. Topics: site prospection, landscape mapping, AI, geospatial analysis, and more. Accepted abstracts published in ArcheoSciences. Details: prospect.ugent.be/icap2025/ #ICAP2025 #ISAP #ArchaeologicalProspection

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

An African parasite in Medieval Bruges. Read on for the details on our departments latest research 🎉🦠🔬

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

The 24th of november our departement participated in the Dag van de Wetenschap 2024 on two locations! In the Krook we immersed people in the world of bioarch and the research project “Judith, a Carolingian princess in Ghent”

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Hey there bluesky archaeo people, I'm taking this fresh start to introduce myself with a recap of my year so far. This year I started my PhD adventure at UGent and the VUB to learn about funerary rituals and mobility patterns of the Balearic Islands through archaeometric methods 🏝️🦴🧪👩‍🔬.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Hey Bluesky, let me introduce myself! I'm an archaeologist who recently finished his PhD on population dynamics between the Mesolithic and Medieval periods in the Scheldt basin (Belgium and N-France) using summed probability distributions, site counts and modelling of pollen and phoshate data.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment