Climate change and human response at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Belgian Meuse basin (13,000-6000 cal BP)

Doctoral project Evy Van Cauteren

Doctoral project Jonathan Jacops

Doctoral project Katharina Jungnickel

Flintknapping in a changing world – The organization of lithic technology during the Lateglacial and Early Holocene in the Belgian Scheldt valley

Tenacious traces. The impact of burning and patination on microwear traces on experimental and prehistoric stone tools from the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Scheldt valley

To Sum it Up: A Multiproxy Study on Regional Population Dynamics and Human Activity in the Western Scheldt Basin (Belgium & N-France) from the Mesolithic to the Medieval Period

Biting into the Belgian Neolithic: Insights from Isotopic Analysis and Dental Anthropology

Doctoral project Annelies Storme

Doctoral project Géraldine Fiers

Quantitative characterization of soils using electromagnetic geophysics: model development, validation and implementation.

Zooarchaeological Aspects of the Mesolithic Diet in Southern Belgium

An archaeological approach on early interactions between hunter-gatherers and sedentary food-producers in Western Central Africa.

Archaeological assessment of sites within the Rooivel-Papevijvers zone in Oostkamp (West Flanders)

Archaeological salvage excavation of a Roman settlement within the Ghent harbor.

Archeological survey of a drowned landscape in south-western Netherlands (municipality of Sluiskil, prov. Of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen)

BOF-ZAP professorship in Archaeology 

BOF-ZAP professorship in pre- and protohistory

Cofunding Core Facility - Ghent Archaeological Science Centre

Drowning landscapes along the Scheldt. Threat or opportunity? Shifting prehistoric land-use along changing waterways during the Early and Middle Holocene

Exchange networks and ecological changes in NW Europe during the Early Holocene

Geotechnical and archaeological prospection: drilling and probes for detecting deeply buried paleo landscapes -bodems and prehistoric sites.

Identification and 14C Dating of Organic Materials in Archaeological Ceramics - ORG-ID

Impact of climate change on humans and ecosystems during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene

In search of the pristine environments in the lowland river system of Flanders for assessing the impact of past human occupation on current phosphate concentrations

Investigating the role of rivers during the Late Glacial recolonization of NW Europe: a multidisciplinary assessment of Final Palaeolithic sites in the Scheldt valley (Belgium)

Learning from the past: The impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium - LEAP

Lost tributaries of the Scheldt: reconstructing the Mesolithic hunter-gatherer river landscape of the Waasland polders

Man and landscape in prehistory: the story of a "drowned" encampment in the Flemish Scheldt Valley

Methodological research into the reliability of calcined bone for radiocarbon dating the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic

Migration, diet and health of the first permanent settlers of Belgium: inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives

Rapid climate changes during the Mesolithic: impact on man and environment in the southern part of the NW European plain.

The impact of the physical characteristics of flint and their weathering on the preservation of prehistoric use wear traces

The life and thought of northern prehistoric hunter-gatherers: ethnographical and ethnoarchaeological theory and analysis of the behavioral and material expression of the relationship between ideology and ecology

The Neolithic in the sandy lowlands of Belgium: chronology, extension and character

The roles of demic diffusion and/or local adoption in the transitions toward agropastoral Neolithic lifeways in the sandy lowland of Belgium

The roles of demic diffusion and/or local adoption in the transitions toward agropastoral Neolithic lifeways in the sandy lowland of Belgium

The social dynamics behind the transition to farming in the Low Countries (5th millennium BC): from pottery technology to farmer-forager interactions

Working the land, searching the soil. A geophysical framework for diachronic land-use studies

Lateglacial and Holocene environmental evolution of the Middle and Lower Scheldt basin in northern Belgium. A pollen and diatom study

MesoMag: a geophysical perspective on Mesolithic land use in complex environments.

Playing with fire: Disentangling anthropogenic and climate induced fire events during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in the sandy lowlands of Belgium and the southern Netherlands

PROXIMEUSE - Connectivity in the Neolithic Meuse Basin and Northwestern Europe: a bioarchaeological approach.

The evolution of prehistoric occupation in Sandy Flanders from an environmental perspective

BOF-ZAP professorship in Archaeology 

BOF-ZAP professorship in pre- and protohistory

Methodological research into the reliability of calcined bone for radiocarbon dating the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic