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Article Reference Roman pottery production in Civitas Tungrorum, Central Belgium, during the first-third centuries CE.
Aspects of Roman pottery production at the workshops of Kontich, Tienen, Rumst, Grobbendonk and Clavier-Vervoz in the Civitas Tungrorum of central Belgium are explored. A total of 150 wasters from five sites were studied macroscopically, as well as via a combination of thin-section petrography, geochemistry and scanning electron microscopy, in order to gain insights into ceramic technology and aspects of the organization of production. Particular emphasis was given to the individual technological sequences and shared strategies of raw material selection, paste preparation and firing employed at the five adjacent sites. The integration of petrographic and geochemical data permitted the establishment of compositional reference groups for the Roman kiln sites of Civitas Tungrorum, which can be used to track their products within the surrounding landscape.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Article Reference The pitfalls of diachronic comparisons: fish consumption in the medieval and postmedieval town of Aalst, Belgium
The inland town of Aalst is located on the banks of the River Dender, which is part of the Scheldt basin that drains the major part of Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. In an attempt to look for diachronic trends in fish consumption, ichthyological remains from 34 stratigraphic units, derived from seven different sites within the town, are compared, spanning the period from the twelfth to the end of the eighteenth century AD. It was hypothesised that for the medieval and postmedieval periods, the relative frequencies of the various taxa would reflect the historically established development of marine fish consumption and the gradual decline of freshwater fish exploitation due to overfishing and pollution of local freshwater habitats. While it was taken into account that factors such as social position and purchasing power will have influenced the spectrum of fish consumed, the results show that there is an unexpected large inter- and even intra-site variation, even within a restricted time period, patterns difficult to explain and hampering most interpretations. Considering diachronic comparison of the fish assemblages, this inevitably raises the question whether new insights will be easier to gain from wider generalisation or from going into greater interpretational detail.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2021
Article Reference Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023
Article Reference Economic threshold of CO2-EOR and CO2 storage in the North Sea: a case study of the Claymore, Scott and Buzzard oil fields
Located in Library / No RBINS Staff publications
Article Reference Climate dynamics during the penultimate glacial period recorded in a speleothem from Kanaan cave, Lebanon (Central Levant)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference High-resolution reconstruction of 8.2-ka BP event documented in Père Noël cave, southern Belgium.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference Evidence for solar influence in a Holocene speleothem record (Père Noël cave, SE Belgium).
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference Reconstruction of Atmospheric Lead Pollution During the Roman Period Recorded in Belgian Ombrotrophic Peatlands Cores.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference Earthquakes as collapse precursors at the Han-sur-Lesse cave in the Belgian Ardennes.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference Deciduous Molar Morphology from the Neolithic Caves of the Meuse River Basin, Belgium
The karstic caves of the Meuse River Basin in Belgium preserve nearly 200 collective burials dating to the late Neolithic period. Among these, the cave burials of Hastière Caverne M, Sclaigneaux, Bois Madame and Maurenne Caverne de la Cave are represented by numerous individuals and radio-carbon dated to circa 4,635 to 3,830 years B.P. Dental casts from mandibular and maxillary deciduous molars are scored using multiple methods to provide a regional overview of the prevalence and expres-sion of deciduous molar crown traits, and to compare frequencies between cave burial sites with a focus on temporal differentiation. Carabelli’s trait varies from a small pit to a full cusp, the largest of which are found at Hastière Caverne M. The hypoconulid ranges from moderately large to very large. A meta-conulid is absent or small. Although the results are contingent on idiosyncratic preservation, differences in the frequencies of expression of Carabelli’s trait, a pronounced hypoconulid, and the presence of a metaconule and protostylid separate the earlier cave burial at Hastière Caverne M from the final/late Neolithic sites of Sclaigneaux and Bois Madame.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018