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Reconstructing the Palaeo-Environment of the Ancient City of Charax Spasinou
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From its foundation to its heydays as trading hub and to its final abandonment, the history of Charax Spasinou was intimately connected with the evolution of the river systems of the southernmost part of the Mesopotamian plain and the shoreline of the Persian Gulf. This ongoing research, which is part of the Charax Spasinou Project of the Universities of Konstanz and Manchester supported by the German Research Foundation and the Culture Protection Fund of the British Council, aims to reconstruct the evolution of the landscape and palaeoenvironment around the capital of Mesene, by combining evidence from remote sensing data and geological coring. Here, results from the analysis of satellite imagery and a preliminary field campaign carried out in 2018 will be presented. It will be demonstrated that a combined geological and archaeological survey in the wider hinterland of Charax allows an accurate reconstruction of the ancient watercourses and the landscape of Mesene, in which the capital was the nodal point for nearly a millennium.
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RBINS Staff Publications 2021
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First case of a narwhal (Monodon monoceros) in Belgium
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RBINS Staff Publications 2017
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Les monuments funéraires gallo-romains et l’emploi de la pierre dans la région Ouest de la civitas Treverorum.
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Abstract for an oral presentation / Groupe de recherche AcanthuM
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RBINS Staff Publications 2018
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DNA barcoding and identification of terrestrial gastropods of parasitological concern for animals in Greece
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Des meulières en bord de Meuse : exploitation et transport du Poudingue de Burnot autour de la conquête romaine.
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ed. by Groupe de recherche AcanthuM, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Université de Namur, vol. 1, chap. 1, pp. 1, Université de Namur, rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgique, U.Namur, Abstract book ed.
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Provenance and technology of final Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery in the lower Scheldt valley (Belgium).
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XVIII Congres UISPP (International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences), Adaptation et durabilité des sociétés préhistoriques et protohistoriques face aux variations climatiques. Paris, juin 2018. Session IV-3. Apport des approches technologiques de la céramique à l’anthropologie et à l’archéologie des sociétés pré- et protohistoriques – Contribution of the ceramic technological approaches to the anthropology and archeology of pre- et protohistoric societies.
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Etude archéométrique de la brique d’Ancien Régime à Bruxelles avant et après le bombardement par les troupes de Louis XIV en 1695 : distinction de la production briquetière locale des briques d'impportation.
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21ème Colloque international du GMPCA, Archéométrie Rennes 1977 – 1997 – 20017 ; Rennes, 18-21 avril 2017. Abstract book 214p., p.175
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‘Not too white’: an investigation into the influence of the use of imported calcium carbonate-rich imported marls on 17 - 18th century Dutch tin-glaze tiles.
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Abstract et communication orale: Technart 2017. Non-destructive and microanalytical techniques in art and cultural heritage; International Conference, Bilbao (Portugal), May 2-6, 2017
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Elucidating the history of the European crow hybrid zone with paleogenomics. Preliminary Program of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2024
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Comparing the transposon landscapes of a putative ancient asexual and a sexual non-marine ostracod (Crustacea, Arthropoda)
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Ostracods are microscopic, bi-valved crustaceans with the best fossil record of all living arthropods. Their fossil record, starting 400 million years ago, together with a high prevalence of parthenogenetic reproduction and putative ancient asexuality, make non-marine ostracods fascinating evolutionary model organisms. In the absence of high quality ostracod reference genomes, here we compare transposon landscapes between two Illumina genome assemblies from the putative ancient asexual Darwinula stevensoni and the fully sexual ostracod Notodromas monacha. Both assemblies have around 60,000 contigs, sizes of 360-380 Mb, more than 100X coverage and BUSCO scores of 93 and 94%, respectively. Because homology-based programs are not sensitive enough to detect families of transposable elements (TEs) in species missing from Repbase or Dfam, we used three different pipelines for de novo analyses: REPET, RepeatMasker2 (RM2) and EarlGrey (RM2-based, with automated curation). TE diversity between the two genomes differs substantially regardless which pipeline was used. The Illumina assembly of N. monacha is dominated by LTR retrotransposons (6.5%) with some DNA transposons (3.7%), whereas DNA (15.5%), LINE-like (5.9%) and rolling circle Helitron elements (1.5%) were most abundant in the assembly of D. stevensoni. Our results on the dominance of DNA (Tc/mar, hAT) and LINE-like (CR1, RTE) TEs in D. stevensoni parallel earlier findings from a partial genomic library, and differ from those of other asexuals. TE copies with a low number of nucleotide substitutions are only observed with REPET (“L” shape landscape) in both genomes. Although the presented results may underestimate TE abundance, they indicate pronounced differences of the transposon landscapes and diversity between these two ostracod species. Analysis of related species should determine whether the differences are correlated with the reproductive mode or are lineage specific.
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