New Genetic Study Reveals Late Neanderthals in Northwestern Europe Were More Connected Than Previously Thought! 🧬 Researchers from Ghent University are part of an international team that has generated genetic data from 27 late Neanderthals from Belgium and France 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MPI-EVA Leipzig@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · last mo.

Ancient #DNA on #cave walls. Human DNA can survive there for millennia & provide insights into prehistoric human activities, even w/o excavations. New study @natcomms.nature.com by an intl. research team led by Alba Bossoms Mesa & Matthias Meyer. tinyurl.com/3bw7ejzs & www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Research Afternoon of the Department was again a big succes! Bringing together topics ranging from the paleoclimate in Bronze Age Belgium, Byzantine mosaics in Carthage, pottery from Cyprus and landscape evolution in Flanders. Food for thought and stimulating conversations!

In collaboration with some of our colleagues, a new documentary just came out!

Institute of Natural Sciences@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎥 New fieldwork documentary! Speleo, pollen, and bones. Exploring ancient climate change and human mobility in Belgium - Project LEAP (Learning from the Past). Now on our YouTube channel 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kg8... #Fieldwork #ClimateChange #Archaeology #Geology #naturalsciencesbelgium

Nieuwe resultaten van een grootschalig pollenonderzoek uit waterputten, grachten en andere diep uitgegraven structuren werden gebundeld in het syntheserapport "SYNTAR 34: Looking down the well". De resultaten worden komende vrijdag gepresenteerd op de "7de Studiedag Syntheseonderzoek Archeologie".

Naar schatting maar de helft van de opgegraven archeologische vondsten komt in depots terecht. Prof. Wim De Clercq (@archeougent.bsky.social) : “De pijnlijke conclusie is dan dat archeologie geen wetenschappelijk proces meer is, maar verworden is tot bodemsanering”

apache/@apache.be · 6mo ago

Ben Weyts (N-VA) drukt besparingen door bij de onroerenderfgoeddepots, waar archeologische vondsten worden opgeslagen. Die depots zijn cruciaal voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek dat ons wegwijs maakt in het verleden van Vlaanderen. apache.be/2026/02/04/m...

📢 PhD position in Geoarchaeology (4y) – Ghent University within the ERC project FROST. The PhD combines archaeological dating methods with geoarchaeological analyses of sediments to investigate Late Glacial human–environment interactions. www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Deadline: 23 February 2026

Doctoraatsbursaal

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The conference TEKTON. Material and Technical Perspectives on Architectural Design and Construction Processes in the Aegean Bronze Age, will take place in the Acropolis Museum in Athens on the 12-14 March 2026. The programme, abstracts and link to registration can be found on: tekton.ugent.be

📢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 📢

Opening ceremony at 18h, lecture starting at 20h @archeougent.bsky.social @archeosugent.bsky.social

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! 🎉

Really excited to share the preprint for @halbevi.bsky.social and I’s new paper! Lithic tools from the Mesolithic and Neolithic were analysed with palaeoproteomics, use-wear, radiocarbon and optical microscopy residue analyses to find evidence of bovine butchery!

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Palaeoproteomics reveals bovine carcass processing with 6,000-year-old flint tools https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679186v1

Vacature praktijkassistent Oude Nabije Oosten (20%) ⛏️🐐 Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeologie van het Oude Nabije Oosten? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature: jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...

Vacature praktijkassistent archeobotanie (20%) 🌿🔬 Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeobotanie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature: jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...

Vacature praktijkassistent archeometrie (20%) 🥼🔬 Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeometrie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature: jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...

Vacature praktijkassistent fysische antropologie (20%)🦴💀 Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen fysische antropologie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature: jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...

🎉 Colleague dr. Possum Pincé was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her FROST project ❄️. she and her team will look at the impact of climate events, namely the Younger Dryas, on prehistoric societies by studying in detail natural archives and refining site chronologies. www.ugent.be/en/news-even...

No fewer than seven new ERC Starting Grants for Ghent University researchers

This year, seven young Ghent University researchers will receive an ERC Starting Grant. This grant will enable them to expand their research group and conduct groundbreaking research. Ghent University...

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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

Are you confronted with human remains during fieldwork, research, museum curation or your studies? Do you want to learn about the information skeletal remains can give? 🦴🧪 Then @archeosugent.bsky.social's one-week, hands-on course on Human Osteology is perfect for you! More info and registration 👇

Back from the Malcolm H. Wiener Lab in Athens after the first steps in data collection for my PhD project! 🦴 We looked through all the skeletal remains from Lavrio to get first insights into the demographics, health and activities and prepare the sampling procedures. Stay tuned for CT-scanning soon!

Go have a look at @tristande3.bsky.social first paper: "Archaeofaunal record of the Lower to early Middle Palaeolithic in Belgium" 👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z6QTW... And stay tuned for many more exciting results!

Tristan Dedrie@tristande3.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Paper alert 🦣 Archaeofaunal record of the Lower to early Middle Palaeolithic in Belgium The first of many to come on the fauna associated with the earliest hominin presence in Belgium. Read the article now at: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z6QTW... Funding: @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social (FWO)

Medieval Bruges: come for the art, stay for the parasites. 🏰 Our new study of a 15th-century apothecary and Spanish traders uncovers a city brimming with global goods: silks, spices, perfume sprinklers, olives, rice… and yes, an African parasite. 📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/0076...

At the Apothecary: Life in an International District in 15th-Century Bruges

IN 1996, A CESSPIT was uncovered in the backyard of Bruges’ Spanish nation house. The interdisciplinary study of this old rescue excavation sheds new light on life in the city’s international distr...

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Met droefheid melden wij het overlijden van Jacques Semey op 6/08/25. Jacques was piloot en archeoloog, bekend om zijn collectie archeologische luchtfoto’s. Sinds de jaren 80 werkte hij samen met de UGent en andere archeologische diensten. We wensen zijn vrienden, familie en collega's sterkte toe.

Fantastic news! After two weeks of public voting, the Mesolithic woman found in Grotte Margaux has a name: Mos’anne! Come and visit her in one of your neighbouring museums. Mos’anne is awaiting you! www.roam-ugent.be/museumen

Meet the Lady from Grotte Margaux! How should we name her? Join the vote ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 📸 copyright 2025: roam-ugent

📣Job opening: funded PhD position 📣 Interested in Finale Paleolithic and Mesolithic lithic assemblages in the Belgian Meuse Valley and their evolution across time? Apply before the 27th of June 2025 to be part of an interesting project! All information in the link below www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

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Wil je nog meer weten over de baby in het Aalsters bordeel? Neem dan zeker eens een kijkje naar dit vrt artikel 👉 www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Een baby in een Aalsters bordeel: hoe nieuw onderzoek het beeld over middeleeuwse prostituees weer wat bijkleurt | VRT NWS: nieuws

Een middeleeuwse prostituee in Aalst heeft haar baby wellicht met veel zorg proberen groot te brengen, zo leert archeologisch onderzoek met nieuwe technieken op een bijna 30 jaar oude vondst. Het baby...

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📜 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. 🏛️☀️🏺

Al gehoord van Monnikerede of Hoeke? Het zijn nochtans wereldsteden, of eerder, dat waren ze. Lees alles over hun op- en ondergang en die van de andere Zwinsteden in onze bijdrage voor de 'Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen', vanaf vandaag in de boekhandel! 📚 met @jtrachet.bsky.social en Wim De Clercq