Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent

Allow us to introduce ourselves! We're the Ghent Archaeology Department, from the University of Ghent. We have people working on a broad range of activities, projects, and expertices ranging from the Paleolithic until the Post-Medieval period. Follow us and the our team here: go.bsky.app/6H5KWCj

We are proud to announce that in 2029 Ghent University is organizing and hosting the European Association of Archaeology conference (EAA) @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social together with the Flemish Heritage agency, GentCongres and the Flanders Convention Bureau! www.ugent.be/nl/actueel/u...

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...

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!

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".

📢 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

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!

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

📜 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

Maxime Poulain and @idegroote.bsky.social from @archeougent.bsky.social presenting their research at Les journées de la Societe d’antropologie de Paris @museedelhomme.fr

Dr. Maïté Rivollat presented the ROAM project on the genetic analysis of #Mesolithic and #Neolithic people from Belgium at the annual meeting of the Societe d’antropologie de Paris held this year at the @museedelhomme.fr @archeosugent.bsky.social @archeougent.bsky.social

Our department is looking for a professor in Northwest European Prehistory! Join the #prehistory research group! jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Pr...

Vacancy at @archeougent.bsky.social. For #prehistorians to join our awesome research group with the best colleagues 😉

Recently we performed the first #fieldwork in my #FWO postdoc project “playing with fire”. This time we sampled Late Glacial charcoal-rich soils to eventually reconstruct fire regimes and possible human impact in northern Belgium🔥 Next step: labwork!

#Endtroducing my #twitter profile summary: I am a #medieval archaeologist at @archeougent.bsky.social, surveying the lost harbors of the Zwin, and turning history into a cycling adventure. I am also studying 16th-century historical maps, revealing secrets of Pieter Pourbus' map-making techniques

Op 4/02 is de jaarlijkse Nieuwjaarslezing in de Minard in Gent. 🥳 Dit jaar neemt collega Ewoud Deschepper ons mee naar het vroegmiddeleeuwse Gent, van Karel de Grote en de Vikingen, maar ook boeren, handelaars en soldaten. De deuren open om 19u30, begin om 20u. Info: stad.gent/nl/cultuur-v...

Collega @sadimarechal.bsky.social maakte een podcast over de geschiedenis van baden 🛀 Erin vertelt collega @mpoulain.bsky.social alles over baden in de middeleeuwen (en meer! 🌶)

Onderzoek van onze master-student @archeougent.bsky.social haalt nu ook @vrtnws.bsky.social, met dank aan @wardschouppe.bsky.social!

🚨 New research! 🚨 Dr. Veropoulidou & colleague Prof. Maud Devolder reveal a new method to detect mudbrick remains in Bronze Age buildings on Crete using mollusk shells as part of her #ERC research. 🐚 This allows for easier studying of ancient architecture! 🏺 doi.org/10.1080/1461...

So happy to be a part of the @clariahvl.bsky.social consortium which was just awarded with the FWO infrastructure grant. Cultural and biological heritage projects by @archeougent.bsky.social will benefit from its expertise for the years to come.

🏆 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

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

Nu ook op @vrtnws: Brugge was belangrijke middeleeuwse handelsstad, bewijst ook parasiet uit 500 jaar oude beerput vrtnws.be/p.0YaBLNoBM

Hey Bluesky, let me introduce myself. I’m an archaeologist specialised in usewear/functional analysis of lithics currently doing my postdoc in @roam-ugent.bsky.social at @archeougent.bsky.social.