Project

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

Acronym

ROAM

Code

01G00822

Duration

01 January 2022 → 31 December 2025

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor-spokesperson

Isabelle De Groote

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Analytical spectrometry
- Anthropological genetics
Humanities and the arts
- Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
- Bioarchaeology
Medical and health sciences
- Protein diagnostics

Keywords

Mesolithic ancient DNA paleoproteomics migration archaeology anthropology isotopes zooarchaeology health

Project description

The aim of this project is to generate regional-scale insights into the lifeways of the first modern humans to settle permanently in Belgium during the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. It achieves this through multi- and inter-disciplinary analysis of contextualised data from archaeological, palaeontological and anthropological assemblages whilst developing state-of-the-art analytical techniques in the fields of proteomics and stable isotope analysis.