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Article Reference Continuity and change in animal exploitation at the transition from Antiquity to the early medieval period in the Belgian and Dutch loess region
Abstract This article studies the evolution of livestock exploitation during the late Roman Empire and the Merovingian period by highlighting significant and progressive changes in husbandry practices that are discernible from archaeozoological data relating to five settlements in the Belgian and Dutch loess region. The intensive exploitation of cattle for agricultural activities, transport, and meat supply of consumer sites during the Roman period was progressively abandoned. Pigs grew in importance during the late Empire and became predominant at all sites from the 5th century onwards. Reduction in demand for powerful draught animals for agricultural work in the loess belt is reflected by strong decrease in cattle size and robusticity in the 6th century. Kill-off patterns, sex-ratios, and pathologies related to the use of cattle for traction also point to changes in the objectives of breeding cattle. There was a shift from intensive exploitation for traction during the late Roman period to mixed breeding for meat and milk production in addition to traction during the Merovingian period. The archaeozoological results suggest a less intensive exploitation of agricultural land and a more significant exploitation of woodland. An increase in cattle is recorded at the end of the Merovingian period, in particular at the sites of the Meuse valley, coinciding with an increase in agricultural production.
Inproceedings Reference Étude des restes incinérés provenant de la tombe du second âge du Fer issus du site du Crachet à Frameries
Unpublished Reference A novel role for natural science collections in European contaminant monitoring
This poster outlines the role that can be played by natural science collections for monitoring of environmental contaminants in biota.
Article Reference Note on some Ptomaphagus Hellwig, 1795 collected in the Jean Massart Botanical Garden (Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium) with a new record for the Belgian fauna (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Ptomaphagini)
Inbook Reference Des pots dans les minières. La céramique Michelsberg des minières et de l’enceinte du site de Spiennes (Hainaut, Belgique)
Article Reference Grandes lames en roches alpines (et quelques autres) trouvées dans le Benelux : Synthèse des analyses spectroradiométriques
Techreport Reference Archeologische evaluatie en waardering van een site uit de bandkeramiek (Riemst, provincie Limburg) [kenmerk PVDH/LT/10. 11-29899], Rapport 2011-7
Article Reference Lettre à Jules. Un grand coup de chapeau...
Techreport Reference Analyse spectroradiométrique de quelques pièces néolithiques du Musée archéologique de Mons (Belgique). 1er état, Rapport interne
Inbook Reference Notice « de Heinzelin de Braucourt Jean (Marchienne-au-Pont, 1920 – Bruxelles, 1998) »
Inbook Reference Notice « Lemonnier Alfred (Mons, 1857 – Bruxelles, 1921) »
Inbook Reference Nouvel éclairage méthodologique sur la gestion des ressources minérales et les déplacements des groupes humains en Préhistoire : le cas du Gravettien en Belgique
Inbook Reference Human skeletons in the flint mine shafts of Spiennes: casualties or burials?
Inbook Reference A jade axehead in the middle of the famous Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes?
Inbook Reference 19th century flint production in Brandon (UK) and the RBINS collection.
Article Reference 2.3. Des squelettes humains dans les puits d'extraction des minières néolithiques de silex de Spiennes : accidents ou sépultures ?
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.
Article Reference 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)
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.
Inproceedings Reference Is a port biologically connected to another port by hydrodynamic routes other than the ‘traveling in ballastwater’ route
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