Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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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.
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Sogana cysana sp. nov., a new tropiduchid planthopper from Chu Yang Sin National Park in Vietnam and key to Vietnamese species of the genus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae)
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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.
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Is a port biologically connected to another port by hydrodynamic routes other than the ‘traveling in ballastwater’ route
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Getting more out of the marine equipment budget by applying open source technology
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Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry
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Book review: J.F. GEYS, 2015. De Geschiedenis van het Leven. 8e. Jura – Insecten 1 (Palaeoptera & Exopterygota). VLAGAST vzw, ISBN 978-90-809140-9-4. 210 p.
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Book review: J.F. GEYS, 2016. De Geschiedenis van het Leven. 8f. Jura – Insecten 2 (Endopterygota). VLAGAST vzw, ISBN 978-90- 825171-0-1. 276 p.
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Book review: J.F. GEYS, 2018. De Geschiedenis van het Leven. 8g. Jura – Echinodermata. VLAGAST vzw, ISBN 978-90-825171-1-8. 189 p.
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Herkomst van de natuursteen in de Romeinse gebeeldhouwde stenen en opschriften
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Lithologisch-petrografische beschrijving van de stenen fragmenten van de interieurdecoraties
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Natuursteen in het Romeinse badhuis van Heerlen, Nederlands Limburg
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Stone architectural elements, decorations, querns and millstones
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Climate dynamics during the penultimate glacial period recorded in a speleothem from Kanaan cave, Lebanon (Central Levant)
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High-resolution reconstruction of 8.2-ka BP event documented in Père Noël cave, southern Belgium.
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Evidence for solar influence in a Holocene speleothem record (Père Noël cave, SE Belgium).
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Reconstruction of Atmospheric Lead Pollution During the Roman Period Recorded in Belgian Ombrotrophic Peatlands Cores.
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Earthquakes as collapse precursors at the Han-sur-Lesse cave in the Belgian Ardennes.
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Bruniquel, la première grotte explorée par les hommes de Néandertal.
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Bruniquel, les tréfonds d'une grotte investie il y a 176500 ans.
