Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Inside baleen: Exceptional microstructure preservation in a late Miocene whale skeleton from Peru
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Berries from Belgium: archaeobotanical finds of redcurrant, blackcurrant and gooseberry
- Recently medieval and post-medieval carpological data from Belgium were collected in an ArboDat© database. The dataset obtained shows a diversification of fruit species during the late medieval period, which can be related to the development of horticulture. Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum), redcurrant (Ribes rubrum) and gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) belong to this new fruit species group occurrence. In the Low Countries Ribes sp. pollen and macrobotanical remains dating to the Atlantic period were recently recorded, suggesting that at least some species are autochthonous. However, it is striking that the earliest records after prehistoric times date to the medieval period. In Northwestern Europe archaeobotanical finds become more frequent from the end of the medieval period and the beginning of the early modern period onwards. Likewise, the oldest historical sources date to the 15th and 16th centuries. This poster gives an overview of the Belgian archaeobotanical records of Ribes species. We will discuss the species status and use during the late medieval and post-medieval period in Belgium based on archaeobotanical finds and information from iconographical and written sources.
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Evolution of plant economy in Medieval and Post-Medieval Belgium, a review of the Archaeobotanical Data
- The first archaeobotanical studies on medieval and early modern sites in Belgium were published in the eighties of last century. Since then hundreds of samples from rescue excavations have been analysed and the increasing amount of data permits a first review. In this presentation we will give a synthesis of the carpological records of cultivated and collected plants of economic importance from medieval and post-medieval sites in Belgium. It will comprise published data from Flanders (the northern part of Belgium) and published and unpublished data from the Brussels region and the Walloon region (the southern part of Belgium), recently collected by the archaeobotanical team of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. After evaluating the potential and limits of this rich archaeobotanical dataset, diachronic trends related to intensification of crop cultivation, developments in horticulture and fruit cultivation, introductions of non-indigenous species, changing trade networks and changes in food consumption patterns of medieval and post-medieval populations will be discussed. The data will be confronted with information from historical sources and archaeobotanical records from the wider region. Finally we will define some research questions for future studies.
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Notes on Latest Cretaceous Cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from Tunisia - Part 1. A new species of Pachyscalpellum Buckeridge, 1991
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An update of the lithostratigraphy of the Ieper Group.
- The objective of the present revision is to complement the lithostratigraphy of the Ieper Group published in 2001 (Laga et al., 2001). This last publication reflected the activities in the Tertiary Subcommission at that time. The review published in 2001 framed in an initiative of the National Stratigraphic Commission and was limited to the lithostratigraphy at formation level. The Laga et al (2001) reference document has been the basis for the NCS website until now. The Ieper Group is characterised by clay−dominated sediments overlying, in most situations, the Landen Group strata and, if not outcropping, underlying the sand−dominated Zenne Group sediments. According to Laga et al. (2001) in their reference document for Paleogene and Neogene lithostratigraphy, the Ieper Group consists of the Kortrijk, Tielt and Gentbrugge Formations and ,members in these Formations are only listed. These subdivisions are also used on the 1:50 000 geological maps of Flanders, edited in the last decades of the 20th century. Especially the additional description of the members, and where possible, horizons, identified in the Formations, made the present review necessary and also modifications at the formation level itself arisen since 2001 needed to be integrated in a new synthesis. The present update is based on the earlier description of members in Maréchal & Laga (1988), Geets et al. (2000) and Steurbaut (1998) as far as appropriate. All modifications, discussions and additions are supported by the relevant literature references.
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Macroraptorial sperm whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Peru
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The Holocene occurrence of Acipenser spp. in the southern North Sea: the archaeological record
- Archaeological sturgeon remains from the southern North Sea basin used to be automatically attributed to Acipenser sturio, since this was the only acipenserid species believed to occur there. These species identifications, however, were in need of revision after a growing number of indications were found for the historical presence of Acipenser oxyrinchus in western Europe. In this study, morphological and genetic data on sturgeon remains from archaeological sites along the southern North Sea are revised. A large number of Dutch, Belgian, British and some French archaeological sturgeon remains, dating from theMesolithic up to Late Modern times, are morphologically examined and fish sizes are reconstructed. This study of >7000 acipenserid bones proves the sympatric occurrence of European sturgeon A. sturio and Atlantic sturgeon A. oxyrinchus in the southern North Sea at least since the Neolithic (fourth millennium BC onwards), with A. oxyrinchus remains always outnumbering those of A. sturio. Human influence is documented by the decrease in finds through time, but no clear evidence was found for a diachronic change in fish lengths that could possibly be related to fishing pressure.
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Fluorapatite in carbonatite-related phosphate deposits: the case of the Matongo carbonatite (Burundi)
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Book review of Kouki, P., M. Lavento. - Petra - The Mountain of Aaron. The Finnish Archaeological Project in Jordan. Volume III. The Archaeological Survey.
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The 'Demange drawings': known and unknown malacological contributions of Victor Demange (1870-1940)
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Synchronous genetic turnovers across Western Eurasia in Late Pleistocene collared lemmings
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The end of the mammoth steppe in central East European plains during the Epigravettian: insights from collagen stable isotopes
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Comparing Gravettian and Epigravettian canids from Europe with Late Pleistocene canids from Yakutia
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The Upper Palaeolithic domestication of the dog
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The identity of Darwininitium shiwalikianum Budha & Mordan, 2012 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)
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Crossed-lamellar layer in evolution of the Molluscan shell microstructures
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Shell repurposing is an important consideration for the future sustainability of mollusc aquaculture
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Reviewing the EASIN catalogue of alien terrestrial gastropods in Europe
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Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Toxeutes de Nouvelle-Calédonie (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae, Aegosomatini)
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Some faunistic notes on selected moth species (Lepidoptera) from the Seychelles
