Acronym
ROAM
Code
01G00822
Duration
01 January 2022 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor-spokesperson
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Analytical spectrometry
- Anthropological genetics
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Humanities and the arts
- Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
- Bioarchaeology
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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.