Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Unraveling geological and geographical provenances of querns and mills during Roman times at the northern frontier of the Roman Empire (Belgium, Northern France, Southern Netherlands, Western germany): a multidisciplinary research project.
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Manufacture and diffusion of whetstones during Roman times in Northern Gaul (Belgium and Northern France).
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Geochemical sourcing of flint artifacts from Western Belgium and the German Rhineland: testing hypotheses on Gravettian period mobility and raw material economy
- Identifying the geological and geographical origin of lithic raw materials is critical to effectively address prehistoric forager raw material economies and mobility strategies. Currently, Paleolithic archaeology in Belgium lacks a systematic sourcing strategy to effectively substantiate detailed interpretations of prehistoric hunter-gatherer behavioral change across time and space. This pilot study evaluates the potential to “fingerprint” flint from the Mons Basin, western Belgium, using the laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) technique and a multivariate statistical analysis of 87 geological samples and 39 Gravettian period chipped stone artifacts. We reappraise two hypotheses raised by previous scholars based on visual raw material identification: (1) the Gravettian occupants of Maisières-Canal supplied themselves with “black flint” from one single source; (2) the sites Rhens and Koblenz-Metternich yielded artifacts indicative of long-distance transfer of western Belgian flint into the German Rhineland, ca. 260 km from the primary source area. Our results demonstrate the validity of LA-ICP-MS data with flint and compositional data analysis for fingerprinting discrete geological formations from the Mons Basin. We suggest multiple source provisioning for Maisières-Canal. Geochemical characterization of other potential flint sources is required to validate the long-distance transfer hypothesis of western Belgian “black flint” into the German Rhineland.
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First offshore observation of parti-coloured bat Vespertilio murinus in the Belgian part of the North Sea
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Gesloopt en ingepakt De kruiswegstatie en het huis op de hoek van de Dender- met de Vredestraat te Geraardsbergen
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Life and after-life of the Roman ornamental stones within the civitas Tungrorum (Germania Inferior)
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Building stones in a newly discovered residential-workshop area in Orolaunum Vicus (Arlon, Belgium)
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Retrieval of opus sectile components by craftsmen in the vicus of Arlon (Belgium)
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Stone ointment palettes in the northwestern part of Gallia Belgica: provenance, trade an use
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The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
- Modern humans arrived in Europe ˊ45,000 years ago, but little is known about their genetic composition before the start of farming ˊ8,500 years ago. Here we analyse genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from ˊ45,000–7,000 years ago. Over this time, the proportion of Neanderthal DNA decreased from 3–6\% to around 2\%, consistent with natural selection against Neanderthal variants in modern humans. Whereas there is no evidence of the earliest modern humans in Europe contributing to the genetic composition of present-day Europeans, all individuals between ˊ37,000 and ˊ14,000 years ago descended from a single founder population which forms part of the ancestry of present-day Europeans. An ˊ35,000-year-old individual from northwest Europe represents an early branch of this founder population which was then displaced across a broad region, before reappearing in southwest Europe at the height of the last Ice Age ˊ19,000 years ago. During the major warming period after ˊ14,000 years ago, a genetic component related to present-day Near Easterners became widespread in Europe. These results document how population turnover and migration have been recurring themes of European prehistory.
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On the Roman use of Belgian marbles
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The Trier diabase: a possible regional source rock for Roman "green porphyry"
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The use and reuse of local/regional and imported decorative stones in a Roman urban quarter and early medieval church in Tongeren (Atuatuca Tungrorum, Belgium)
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Roman ornamental stones in the collection geology of the RBINS
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Geological provenance of the Nehalennia votive altars from Colijnsplaat (province of Zeeland, The Netherlands): preliminary results
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Belgisch Ringwerk. Overzicht van de in 2015 uitgevoerde activiteiten in België.
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PRÉSENTATION AU GRAND PUBLIC DES FAUCONS PÈLERINS NICHANT À BRUXELLES RAPPORT DE L’ÉDITION 2015
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Stratigraphy and Commissions. Do we need stratigraphic commissions ?
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H3O: Crossing borders in 3D geological modelling
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13th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, Brno, Czech Republic, 7–11 September, 2015
