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PhD theses

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Datasets

  • Pierik, H.J. (2017) Geomorphological reconstructions of the natural levee landscape in the first millennium AD of the Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands. DANS dataset.
  • Pierik, H.J. (2017) Holocene drift-sand activity in the Netherlands. DANS dataset.

Papers

Presentations

  • ​​​​25 juni 2013: Gouw-Bouman – Vegetation and climate change during the Dark Ages in the Netherlands (lowlands). NihK Wilhemshaven.
  • 25 juni 2013: Pierik – Natural landscape dynamics between AD 300 and 1000  – NihK.
  • 25 juni 2013: Van Lanen – The Dark Age of the Lowlands in an interdisciplinary light: people, landscape and climate in the Netherlands between AD 300 and 1000 (project introduction) – NihK.
  • 25 juni 2013: Van Lanen – Occupation patterns and land use between AD 300 and 1000  – NihK.
  • 19 september 2013: Gouw-Bouman – Vegetation and climate change during the Dark Ages in the Netherlands (lowlands). Symposium Dark Age of the Lowlands, Amersfoort.
  •  19 september 2013 Pierik – Natural landscape dynamics between AD 300 and 1000, Oral presentation, Symposium Dark Age of the Lowlands, Amersfoort.
  •  19 september 2013: Van Lanen – Occupation patterns and land use between AD 300 and 1000  – Symposium Dark Age of the Lowlands, Amersfoort.
  •  20 december 2013: Gouw-Bouman – Vegetation and climate change during the Dark Ages in the Netherlands (lowlands). Palynologische kring, Utrecht.
  •  20 december 2013: Pierik – Natural landscape evolution between AD 300 and 1000, Oral presentation, Palynologische kring Utrecht.
  • 27 maart 2014: Gouw-Bouman – Vegetation and climate change during the Dark Ages in the Netherlands (lowlands). IGBA VU Amsterdam.
  •  27 maart 2014: Pierik – Natural landscape evolution between AD 300 and 1000, Oral presentation, IGBA VU Amsterdam.
  •  27 maart 2014: Van Lanen – Occupation patterns and land use between AD 300 and 1000  –  IGBA VU, Amsterdam.
  • 5 april 2014: Pierik, Cohen & Stouthamer – Coastal plain dynamics: GIS-solutions to map and catalogue coastal marine architectural elements, Geographie der Meere und Küsten, Willemshaven, Germany, 3/04/14 – 6/04/14, pp. 63.
  •  19 juni 2014, Jansma – Inter-site dendrochronology of the Roman-period in the Low Countries, VU, Amsterdam.
  • 3 juli 2014: Jansma & Van Lanen – The dendrochronology of the Early Middle Ages: Local and long-distance timber supply in the Netherlands, with emphasis on Dorestad. Second Dorestad Congress ‘The early-medieval Netherlands in an international Framework (RMO, Leiden; 3-5 juli 2014).
  •  5 september 2014, Jansma – The Dark Age of the Lowlands in an interdisciplinary light – preserving and linking ‘palaeo-environmental’ research data, CHERISCAPE, RCE, Amersfoort.
  • 10 oktober 2014: Pierik – Late Holocene coastal plain and delta evolution in the Netherlands, Lunch lecture dept. FG, Utrecht.
  • 28 oktober 2014: Gouw-Bouman – 40 shades of black. Vegetation development during the Dark Ages in the Netherlands. Symposium Dark Age of the Lowlands, Amersfoort.
  • 28 oktober 2014: Pierik – Coastal plain and delta evolution in the Netherlands during the Early Middle Ages. Symposium Dark Age of the Lowlands, Amersfoort.
  • 28 oktober 2014: Van Lanen – Searching for route networks: Using landscape archaeology to model probable Roman and early-medieval routes in the Netherlands – Symposium Dark Age of the Lowlands, Amersfoort.
  • 5 november 2014: Van Lanen – Surveying past movement: how landscape archaeology helps the reconstruction, analysis and prediction of Roman and early-medieval infrastructure in the Netherlands,  19th conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Wenen.
  • 27 januari 2015: Van Lanen – Modelling past routes: Reconstructing Roman and early-medieval frequent-travel zones in the Netherlands using a landscape-archaeological approach, BEGCOM meeting, Utrecht.
  • 5 februari 2015: Pierik – Dynamic Late Holocene coastal plain palaeogeography: GIS-solutions to map and catalogue coastal plain architectural elements, GIS-day VU, Amsterdam.
  • 5 februari 2015: Van Lanen – Searching for past routes in the Netherlands: combining landscape archaeology and GIS, GIS-day VU, Amsterdam.
  • 3 maart 2015: Pierik – Coastal plain and delta evolution in the Netherlands during the Early Middle Ages, BEGCOM symposium, Utrecht.
  • 10 maart 2015: Van Lanen – The Dark Age of the Lowlands in an Interdisciplinary Light: People, Landscape and Climate between AD 300 – 1000, presentatie RCE, Amersfoort.
  • 28 april 2015: Gouw-Bouman – Lunchlezing dept. FG + BEGCOM meeting, UU.
  • 29 juli 2015: Pierik, Cohen, Vos, Van der Spek &  Stouthamer – Late Holocene coastal plain evolution in the Netherlands INQUA, Nagoya (Japan).
  • 13 oktober 2015: Pierik – Reconstructing the dynamic landscape of the Rhine-Meuse delta, Dark Age of the Lowlands symposium.
  • 24 maart 2016: Pierik & Van Lanen – Roman and early-medieval landscape reconstructions and settlement dynamics in the Rhine-Meuse delta, Lunchlezing departement FG.
  • 9 april 2016: Pierik & Van Lanen – Roman and early-medieval landscape reconstructions and settlement dynamics in the Rhine-Meuse delta, NAC Veldhoven.
  • 21 april 2016: Pierik, Stouthamer & Cohen – New generation of integrated geological-geomorphological reconstruction maps in the Rhine-Meuse delta, The Netherlands, PICO EGU Wenen.
  • 23 augustus 2016: Pierik, Van Lanen, Gouw-Bouman, Groenewoudt & Hoek –
    Aeolian drift-sand dynamics, vegetation changes, and population pressure, LAC Uppsala.
  • 24 augustus 2016: Pierik & Van Lanen – Roman and early-medieval landscape reconstructions and settlement dynamics in the Rhine-Meuse delta, LAC Uppsala.
  • Student theses
  • Maas, D., 2013: Late Holocene landscape variability in the province of Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. B.Sc. thesis, Utrecht University (supervision: W.Z. Hoek & M.Y.I.J. Gouw-Bouman).
  • Doeve, P., 2015: The long journey of early medieval wood; establishing absolute dates and determining the provenance of timbers from the Oegstgeest-Rijnfront site. M.SAc. thesis, Leiden University (supervision: F. Theuws (UL) and E. Jansma (UU)).
  • Mengers, B. The impact of early farming on vegetation and driftsand patterns in Drenthe, NL and South Jutland, DK (supervision: W.Z. Hoek & M.Y.I.J. Gouw-Bouman).
  • Schuring, T. 2016: Development of new river channels and river maturation in the Rhine-Meuse delta, during the Late Roman Period and Early Middle Ages, AD 300-1000 (supervision H.J. Pierik and E. Stouthamer).

Student internships

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Related products 

Roman-period infrastructure: 

Jansma, E., K. Haneca & M. Kosian, 2014: A dendrochronological reassessment of three Roman vessels from Utrecht (the Netherlands): evidence of inland navigation between the lower-Scheldt region in Gallia Belgica and the limes of Germania inferior. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, 484-496.