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
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.