Charlotte Van Riet
@charlottevanriet.bsky.social
PhD researcher @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel
🏛 History
🏚 Archaeology
🦷 Isotopes
🏛 History
🏚 Archaeology
🦷 Isotopes
🔔 Recap : Visited two international conferences this summer. @isbarchaeology.bsky.social, hosted by the University of Turin, And SMA conference in Leicester. Met plenty of researchers, working on medieval archaeology and isotopes. 🧪🏰🦴 Came back to Brussels with new ideas and inspiration! 🤔 ✍
September 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🔔 Recap : Visited two international conferences this summer. @isbarchaeology.bsky.social, hosted by the University of Turin, And SMA conference in Leicester. Met plenty of researchers, working on medieval archaeology and isotopes. 🧪🏰🦴 Came back to Brussels with new ideas and inspiration! 🤔 ✍
Very interesting new article tackling a long-standing debate concerning the tensions between seigneurial lordship and capitalist forces in Flanders! 🏰
doi.org/10.1093/past...
doi.org/10.1093/past...
May 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Very interesting new article tackling a long-standing debate concerning the tensions between seigneurial lordship and capitalist forces in Flanders! 🏰
doi.org/10.1093/past...
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Received a tour at the excavations of the (first) castle of the counts of Flanders in Ypres today! A very exciting find regarding the earliest history of the city, and for my research on the city's earliest city-dwellers... 🏰 @amgc-vub.bsky.social @shoc-vub.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Received a tour at the excavations of the (first) castle of the counts of Flanders in Ypres today! A very exciting find regarding the earliest history of the city, and for my research on the city's earliest city-dwellers... 🏰 @amgc-vub.bsky.social @shoc-vub.bsky.social
Very excited to start the labwork for this PhD project!
More on the earliest medieval city-dwellers coming soon... 🦷🦴
More on the earliest medieval city-dwellers coming soon... 🦷🦴
📞 Ypres calling! Special delivery📦🚚
Barbara, Martijn, and Charlotte visited the BAAC depot last Friday and collected the first batch of skeletons from the Sint-Maarten parish in Ypres🦴
But who were these medieval city-dwellers, and where did they come from..?🧪💀
Like for part 2?🤔
#Sr&O #osteology
Barbara, Martijn, and Charlotte visited the BAAC depot last Friday and collected the first batch of skeletons from the Sint-Maarten parish in Ypres🦴
But who were these medieval city-dwellers, and where did they come from..?🧪💀
Like for part 2?🤔
#Sr&O #osteology
March 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Very excited to start the labwork for this PhD project!
More on the earliest medieval city-dwellers coming soon... 🦷🦴
More on the earliest medieval city-dwellers coming soon... 🦷🦴
Reposted by Charlotte Van Riet
Ypres was one of 13th-century Europe’s economic powerhouses. Bart Lambert’s MOTC project drew on isotopic analyses of human skeletons to reconstruct mobility patterns of its inhabitants. Their new paper discusses evidence of regional, female and children’s mobility.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Mobility in a medieval industrial city: an isotopic study of skeletal evidence from 13th -14th century Ypres (Belgium) - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Mobility to and from cities represents an essential aspect of urban development in Flanders (Belgium) during the second half of the Middle Ages (AD 1000 – AD 1500). The city of Ypres was situated in o...
link.springer.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Ypres was one of 13th-century Europe’s economic powerhouses. Bart Lambert’s MOTC project drew on isotopic analyses of human skeletons to reconstruct mobility patterns of its inhabitants. Their new paper discusses evidence of regional, female and children’s mobility.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A merry Christmas from the Brussels' historians 🎅🌲
December 17, 2024 at 5:23 PM
A merry Christmas from the Brussels' historians 🎅🌲
Reposted by Charlotte Van Riet
The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!
Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!
Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
December 11, 2024 at 8:40 AM
The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!
Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!
Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
On 01.11, I started my PhD @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel with @amgc-vub.bsky.social & @shoc-vub.bsky.social thanks to funding from the FWO. I will be researching: The first (medieval) city-dwellers; where they came from, their socio-eco background, and how they shaped their urban environments. 💀🏚
December 5, 2024 at 4:04 PM
On 01.11, I started my PhD @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel with @amgc-vub.bsky.social & @shoc-vub.bsky.social thanks to funding from the FWO. I will be researching: The first (medieval) city-dwellers; where they came from, their socio-eco background, and how they shaped their urban environments. 💀🏚