Naar schatting maar de helft van de opgegraven archeologische vondsten komt in depots terecht. Prof. Wim De Clercq (@archeougent.bsky.social) : “De pijnlijke conclusie is dan dat archeologie geen wetenschappelijk proces meer is, maar verworden is tot bodemsanering”
📢 PhD position in Geoarchaeology (4y) – Ghent University within the ERC project FROST.
The PhD combines archaeological dating methods with geoarchaeological analyses of sediments to investigate Late Glacial human–environment interactions.
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Deadline: 23 February 2026
The conference TEKTON. Material and Technical Perspectives on Architectural Design and Construction Processes in the Aegean Bronze Age, will take place in the Acropolis Museum in Athens on the 12-14 March 2026.
The programme, abstracts and link to registration can be found on: tekton.ugent.be
📢Call for papers! We would like to announce the opening of the Call for Contributions for Session #220 “Across Seas and Theories: Aegean Interconnections with Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, and Egypt in the Second Millennium BCE”, as part of the 32nd #EAA in Athens from August 26 to 29, 2026 📢
Opening ceremony at 18h, lecture starting at 20h
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Yesterday dr. Quentin Drillat successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Spatial Organization, Fragmentation and Developent of City-States in central Crete (Late Minoan II - Hellenistic period)” (promotor: prof. dr. Roald Docter). Congratulations dr. Drillat! 🎉
Really excited to share the preprint for @halbevi.bsky.social and I’s new paper! Lithic tools from the Mesolithic and Neolithic were analysed with palaeoproteomics, use-wear, radiocarbon and optical microscopy residue analyses to find evidence of bovine butchery!
Vacature praktijkassistent Oude Nabije Oosten (20%) ⛏️🐐
Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeologie van het Oude Nabije Oosten? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature:
jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...
Vacature praktijkassistent archeobotanie (20%) 🌿🔬
Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeobotanie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature:
jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...
Vacature praktijkassistent archeometrie (20%) 🥼🔬
Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeometrie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature:
jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...
Vacature praktijkassistent fysische antropologie (20%)🦴💀
Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen fysische antropologie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature: jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...
🎉 Colleague dr. Possum Pincé was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her FROST project ❄️. she and her team will look at the impact of climate events, namely the Younger Dryas, on prehistoric societies by studying in detail natural archives and refining site chronologies. www.ugent.be/en/news-even...
Vanaf vandaag kan je Mos'anne en de tentoonstelling "Face to Face with Prehistory" bewonderen in het Gallo-Romeins Museum in Tongeren!
Wil je meer weten over de wetenschappelijke achtergrond? Lees dan het volledige verhaal 👉 www.roam-ugent.be/fullstory
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Are you confronted with human remains during fieldwork, research, museum curation or your studies? Do you want to learn about the information skeletal remains can give? 🦴🧪
Then @archeosugent.bsky.social's one-week, hands-on course on Human Osteology is perfect for you! More info and registration 👇
Back from the Malcolm H. Wiener Lab in Athens after the first steps in data collection for my PhD project! 🦴 We looked through all the skeletal remains from Lavrio to get first insights into the demographics, health and activities and prepare the sampling procedures. Stay tuned for CT-scanning soon!
Go have a look at @tristande3.bsky.social first paper: "Archaeofaunal record of the Lower to early Middle Palaeolithic in Belgium" 👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z6QTW...
And stay tuned for many more exciting results!
Medieval Bruges: come for the art, stay for the parasites. 🏰
Our new study of a 15th-century apothecary and Spanish traders uncovers a city brimming with global goods: silks, spices, perfume sprinklers, olives, rice… and yes, an African parasite.
📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/0076...
Met droefheid melden wij het overlijden van Jacques Semey op 6/08/25. Jacques was piloot en archeoloog, bekend om zijn collectie archeologische luchtfoto’s. Sinds de jaren 80 werkte hij samen met de UGent en andere archeologische diensten. We wensen zijn vrienden, familie en collega's sterkte toe.
Fantastic news!
After two weeks of public voting, the Mesolithic woman found in Grotte Margaux has a name: Mos’anne!
Come and visit her in one of your neighbouring museums.
Mos’anne is awaiting you!
www.roam-ugent.be/museumen
Meet the Lady from Grotte Margaux! How should we name her? Join the vote ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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📣Job opening: funded PhD position 📣
Interested in Finale Paleolithic and Mesolithic lithic assemblages in the Belgian Meuse Valley and their evolution across time?
Apply before the 27th of June 2025 to be part of an interesting project! All information in the link below www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Wil je nog meer weten over de baby in het Aalsters bordeel? Neem dan zeker eens een kijkje naar dit vrt artikel 👉 www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
📜 Nieuw artikel: “Born in a brothel: new perspectives on childcare with medieval sex workers”
Maxime Poulain, Jessica Palmer (UGent) en Céline Bon (Musée de l’Homme, Parijs) onderzoeken het skelet van een baby, gevonden in een 14e-eeuws bordeel in Aalst.
👉 Volledige artikel: rdcu.be/eh4Lj
A team from the UGent (Prof. Maud Devolder) participated to the study of the limestone quarries exploited for the construction of the 4th c. BC Temple of Apollo in Delphi. The project 'Stone in Delphi' is directed by Prof. Amélie Perrier (Orléans University) for the EFA.
www.efa.gr/mission-de-t...
Deze week bevonden onze BA3 studenten zich in Athene en omstreken. In het kader van het vak Buitenlands Veldwerk bezochten en presenteerden ze enkele prachtige sites en musea en breidden zo hun kennis uit over antieke tempels, theaters, funeraire cultuur, verdedigingswerken en zo veel meer. 🏛️☀️🏺
Al gehoord van Monnikerede of Hoeke? Het zijn nochtans wereldsteden, of eerder, dat waren ze. Lees alles over hun op- en ondergang en die van de andere Zwinsteden in onze bijdrage voor de 'Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen', vanaf vandaag in de boekhandel! 📚 met @jtrachet.bsky.social en Wim De Clercq
Maxime Poulain and @idegroote.bsky.social from @archeougent.bsky.social presenting their research at Les journées de la Societe d’antropologie de Paris @museedelhomme.fr
In particular, the fieldwork project in the Potenza Valley (Le Marche, Italy) became groundbreaking through its combination of non-invasive prospections and excavations.
We thank him for his many years of tireless efforts and wish him all the best for the future!
He transitioned from fieldwork in rainy Flanders to various projects in the more sunny western Mediterranean (Italy, Corsica, Portugal). He published numerous articles and books on various topics such as #urbanization and #settlement-archaeology, #geoarchaeology and #landscape-archaeology.
After a career of 42 years, colleague Frank Vermeulen, professor of Roman-Mediterranean archaeology, will retire on Feb 1.
Prof. Vermeulen obtained his PhD at #UGent with a thesis on Roman habitation in sandy Flanders, and afterwards specialized in Roman-Mediterranean archaeology.
