The LOCO project aims to understand the driving forces behind the movement of materials, people, and ideas in and out of the Low Countries, from a diachronic point of view, covering the Neolithic up to and including the Late Middle Ages. So far, attempts to study this mobility remained confined to specific disciplines and restricted historical periods. Combining the
strengths of archaeological, historical, anthropological, literary, and geochemical approaches, the LOCO project develops a complementary and adaptable methodological framework applied across a 7,000-year period, covering both pre-historic and historic times. Situated at
the crossroads of human, material and intellectual exchanges between Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern Europe, the Low Countries provide an ideal case study to test this framework.