📢Call for papers! We would like to announce the opening of the Call for Contributions for Session #220 “Across Seas and Theories: Aegean Interconnections with Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, and Egypt in the Second Millennium BCE”, as part of the 32nd #EAA in Athens from August 26 to 29, 2026 📢

Yesterday dr. Quentin Drillat successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Spatial Organization, Fragmentation and Developent of City-States in central Crete (Late Minoan II - Hellenistic period)” (promotor: prof. dr. Roald Docter). Congratulations dr. Drillat! 🎉

Vanaf vandaag kan je Mos'anne en de tentoonstelling "Face to Face with Prehistory" bewonderen in het Gallo-Romeins Museum in Tongeren!
Wil je meer weten over de wetenschappelijke achtergrond? Lees dan het volledige verhaal 👉 www.roam-ugent.be/fullstory
@roam-ugent.bsky.social

📜 Nieuw artikel: “Born in a brothel: new perspectives on childcare with medieval sex workers”
Maxime Poulain, Jessica Palmer (UGent) en Céline Bon (Musée de l’Homme, Parijs) onderzoeken het skelet van een baby, gevonden in een 14e-eeuws bordeel in Aalst.

👉 Volledige artikel: rdcu.be/eh4Lj

A team from the UGent (Prof. Maud Devolder) participated to the study of the limestone quarries exploited for the construction of the 4th c. BC Temple of Apollo in Delphi. The project 'Stone in Delphi' is directed by Prof. Amélie Perrier (Orléans University) for the EFA.
www.efa.gr/mission-de-t...

Deze week bevonden onze BA3 studenten zich in Athene en omstreken. In het kader van het vak Buitenlands Veldwerk bezochten en presenteerden ze enkele prachtige sites en musea en breidden zo hun kennis uit over antieke tempels, theaters, funeraire cultuur, verdedigingswerken en zo veel meer. 🏛️☀️🏺

After a career of 42 years, colleague Frank Vermeulen, professor of Roman-Mediterranean archaeology, will retire on Feb 1.

Prof. Vermeulen obtained his PhD at #UGent with a thesis on Roman habitation in sandy Flanders, and afterwards specialized in Roman-Mediterranean archaeology.

🏆 Award-winning research!
Congrats to Natan Heidbüchel, @mpoulain.bsky.social
& Wim De Clercq for receiving the Editor’s Award from @SocMedArch
for their article on 15th-century indoor lighting.
Through #ExperimentalArchaeology, they revealed how people skillfully lit their spaces

On the Campus Ledeganck there were experiments with Prehistorical stone tools and Roman metal ones. The audience was tested on their knowledge on animal bones and zooarchaeology and could get some hands on experience. Much was learned and we’re excited for the next edition, we hope you too?

The 24th of november our departement participated in the Dag van de Wetenschap 2024 on two locations! In the Krook we immersed people in the world of bioarch and the research project “Judith, a Carolingian princess in Ghent”