Code
01SF1016
Duration
01 October 2016 → 11 October 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Animal biology
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Humanities and the arts
- Archaeology
- History
- Theory and methodology of archaeology
- Other history and archaeology
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Social sciences
- Economic history
Keywords
Zooarchaeology
Gallo-Roman
romanisation
Project description
This research is a zooarchaeological study executed on animal remains from Gallo-Roman sites with diverse socio-economic functions (rural, administrative, military) spread over multiple landscape components in Flanders. Through interdisciplinary research patterns in the relationship between food and social status and how the absorption in the Roman empire has influenced animal husbandry in farthest corners of the Imperium.