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Les débuts du bronze finaL en beLgique et dans Le sud des Pays-bas : ruPtures et continuités par ... more Les débuts du bronze finaL en beLgique et dans Le sud des Pays-bas : ruPtures et continuités par g. de Mulder, W. Leclercq, M. Van strydonck et e. Warmenbol L' âge du Bronze en Belgique : historiographie À la treizième session du Congrès d'Anthropologie et d'Archéologie, à Monaco, en 1906, le baron Alfred de Loë, alors conservateur de la section "Belgique ancienne" des (futurs) Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles, identifie clairement et nettement, un âge du Bronze en Belgique. Le Trou del Leuve de Sinsin (N.) 1 notamment (voir plus bas), qu'il plaçait encore dans l'âge du Fer en 1891, alors que son inventeur Alfred Bequet l'avait attribué dès 1883 au "bel âge du Bronze" cher à Edouard Desor, réintégre la place qu'il occupe toujours (de Loë 1908), côté de l'actuel RSFO. À la reconnaissance "officielle" de l'âge du Bronze par les autorités scientifiques du début du xx e siècle, le système chronologique adopté fut celui d'Oscar Montelius. Par conséquent, le catalogue des collections de la section "Belgique ancienne" (de Loë 1931) utilise les fourchettes chronologiques suivantes :

In 1940 Kimmig published his theory on the Central-European urnfields. His view influenced the de... more In 1940 Kimmig published his theory on the Central-European urnfields. His view influenced the definition of the urnfields in western Europe and also the idea of the Flemish urnfieldgroup in western Belgium. In the 1980s the concept of the group ‘Rhin-Suisse-France orientale’ (RSFO) proposed that western Europe had come under the cultural influence from the central European region during the Late Bronze Age. A set of pottery types was defined as characteristic for the ‘group RSFO’. The presence of this group is attested in the Meuse valley in southeast Belgium. Study of the pottery production processes in western Belgium shows that the shapes are imitations of typical RSFO-pottery. The method of clay preparation, the tempering materials and the building techniques of the pots is different in western Belgium than in the core area of the group RSFO. The western Belgian chronology was established in comparison with the central European forms. The chronological validity of this typology...

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021

Studies of funerary practices provide information about many aspects of death in past societies. ... more Studies of funerary practices provide information about many aspects of death in past societies. However, only limited archaeological evidence documents the circumstances under which cremations occurred and the person(s) who were performing the funerary rituals. Lying at the border between Atlantic and Continental cultural traditions, the Scheldt and Meuse basins of Belgium represent a unique location to investigate variations in ancient pyre technology and body management, as well as the transfer of knowledge related to cremation techniques during the Metal Ages (ca. 2100-52 BCE). The combined use of Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy, and carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of different skeletal elements from cremation deposits from four archaeological sites clearly shows differences between the Meuse and Scheldt basins. Different wood availability or selection, and variations in the skills and/or experience of the cremation operator may explain these results. These observed differences are likely linked to ways in which cremation was performed in the two basins, indicating that during the Metal Ages, burning processes were not homogeneous in the Belgian region. Instead, cremation practices appear to align with the different cultural influences also observed in ceramics and bronze artifacts from the same time period. These observed differences in funerary practices between the two basins in Belgium show the immense potential of combining infrared and carbon and oxygen isotope analyses to investigate cremation rituals in any period and region around the world.

Het Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie is een onafhankelijk tijdschrift dat aandacht bestee... more Het Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie is een onafhankelijk tijdschrift dat aandacht besteedt aan actueel archeologisch onderzoek in de mediterrane wereld, in het bijzonder verricht vanuit Nederland en België. Bijdragen van lezers kunnen al dan niet verkort door de redactie worden geplaatst. TMA verschijnt twee keer per jaar. Opgave kan schriftelijk of via onze website. Een abonnement kost €20,-. Studenten betalen €15,-(onder vermelding van studentnummer). Het abonnement loopt van 1 januari tot en met 31 december en wordt automatisch verlengd, tenzij een maand van tevoren schriftelijk is opgezegd.

ANTHROPOLOGICA ET PRAEHISTORICA, 2020

From the Prehistory until the Late Middle Ages wood was the most important construction material ... more From the Prehistory until the Late Middle Ages wood was the most important construction material for buildings in Flanders. With the exception of wet contexts, the wooden posts of the structures are not preserved anymore. Because of this, these buildings are difficult to date. Charcoal or charred grains preserved in these postholes are a dating option, although the origin of these materials is not always clear. To tackle this problem of reliability, a strategy is to date several samples from the postholes of the same structure. A pattern of contemporaneous 14 C-data will give us insight in the age of these structures and outliers can be eliminated. To verify the results of the 14 C-dating a comparison is made with the fragments of material culture recorded in the infill of the postholes. This method has resulted in the recognition and dating of buildings types during Protohistory and in the Roman period in Flanders and the adjoining regions.

LUNULA (BRUSSEL), 2021

Analysis of calcined human remains from the Hastape and Fosse del Haye sites in the framework of ... more Analysis of calcined human remains from the Hastape and Fosse del Haye sites in the framework of the CRUMBEL project, New data on the chronology of burials in the northern group of burial mounds in the belgian Ardenne; end first Iron Age, second Iron Age