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World Archaeology

De hand van de Oldenzaalse glazenier

Tegen de kloostermuren van het Agnesklooster in Oldenzaal werd in 1996 een kuil aangetroffen die was gevuld met een kuub gebrandschilderd en onbeschilderd vlakglas uit de 14de - 17de eeuw. Het blijkt een kuil met productieafval van een glazenier.

World Archaeology · Archaeological Heritage and Society

Revitalizing the Dutch Southern Water Defence

The Southern Water Defence Line is a large system of defensive water lines largely created in the Eighty Years War (1568-1648). A group of three Archaeology master's students investigated how to turn the Defence Line's features into living heritage.

World Archaeology

Vlog: Ancient Aksum and the impact of colonial archaeology in Africa

World Archaeology

Excavating in times of corona

The corona pandemic has upset life around the globe in many different ways and archaeology has not remained unaffected. Research Master's student Jan Dekker reflects on his coronaproof excavation in France.

Setting the early medieval world on fire

Early medieval cremation burials have long been seen as the remains of non-Christian peoples. Recent research shows this narrative does not comfortably fit the archaeology of that period.

Archaeological Sciences

The elephant in the tomb: Finding the Mycenaean ‘blueprint’ for rock-cut chambers

Daniel Turner investigates the ascendance and decline of multi-use Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece.