A5058878547- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Silicon Effects in Agriculture
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Mineralogy and Gemology Studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Aeolian processes and effects
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Heavy metals in environment
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2020-2025
Royal Museums of Art and History
2024
Université Libre de Bruxelles
2012-2020
Institute of Archeology and Ethnography
2010-2020
Royal Museum for Central Africa
1998-2006
UCLouvain
2001
Ghent University
1998-2000
Opal phytoliths (microscopic silica bodies produced in and between the cells of many plants) are a very resilient, often preserved type plant microfossil. With exponentially growing number phytolith studies, standardization morphotype names description is essential. As first effort standardization, International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature 1.0 was published by ICPN Working Group Annals Botany 2005. A decade use code has prompted need to revise, update, expand improve it.
Original multidisciplinary research hereby clarifies the complex geodomestication pathways that generated vast range of banana cultivars (cvs). Genetic analyses identify wild ancestors modern-day cvs and elucidate several key stages domestication for different cv groups. Archaeology linguistics shed light on historical roles people in movement cultivation bananas from New Guinea to West Africa during Holocene. The reconstruction processes is essential breeding programs seeking diversify...
The multi-disciplinary contributions to this volume are all dedicated the history of banana (Musa spp.) domestication and its significance. Wild bananas genus Musa have undergone a complex that has only been partially unravelled remains be fully elucidated. This is first attempt synthesise latest 'state art' research across range disciplines (either in combination or separately), including from archaeobotany, genetics, linguistics phytogeography.Bananas key domesticate subsistence farmers...
Phytoliths record late Quaternary vegetation at three archaeological sites in the Ituri rain forest. The oldest deposits, dated to ca. 19,000 10,000 14 C yr B.P., contain abundant phytoliths of grasses but also enough arboreal forms show that landscape was forested. late-glacial forests may have had a more open canopy than today's. Younger phytolith assemblages northeast Congo basin densely forested throughout Holocene. Archaeological materials among people lived this region during...
Resumen En este trabajo presentamos la primera evidencia de cultivo Triticeae (trigo y/o cebada) en una parcela arqueológica del sitio Pueblo Guayascate 1, emplazado actual provincia Córdoba, centro Argentina. La presencia especies euroasiáticas tras instauración orden colonial ibérico el territorio argentino ha sido referenciada por documentación escrita los siglos dieciséis y diecisiete corroborada análisis restos arqueológicos macro microbotánicos. fue parte encomienda —y luego merced...
Whereas environmental studies are today an important part of urban archaeological research in many towns and cities Europe, they often focus on individual sites do not always result larger syntheses. To exploit the full potential Brussels, Belgium, a specific framework has been developed, explicitly aimed at coping with inherent complexity investigations, including variety themes that need to be dealt with, challenges fast-evolving research, how address needs different stakeholders. This...
Traditionally, phytolith analyses are carried out by extraction from bulk (sediment) samples. This technique provides valuable information, not only on the morphological and/or taxonomic assignment of phytoliths, but also their concentration (quantitative analysis). However, leads to loss (micro-)context in which they embedded. Over past 20 years, study phytoliths soil thin sections has proven be a consistent method. As neither removed sedimentary matrix nor artificially concentrated,...
Abstract Background Archaeobotanists and palaeoecologists use geometric morphometrics extensively to identify plant opal phytoliths. Particularly when applied assemblages of phytoliths from concentrations retrieved closed contexts, morphometric data archaeological compared with similar reference material can allow taxonomic attribution. Observer variation is one aspect phytolith morphometry that has received little attention but might be an important source error a potential cause...
Although thick, dark, humic, macroscopically homogeneous units, also known as Dark Earth, are an important part of the urban stratigraphy, their understanding often remains problematic. The aim present paper is to demonstrate how archaeopedology contributes study such Earth units. Through example Brussels' we that formation results from multiphased processes whereby various human actions interact with natural phenomena. and transformation can be understood ongoing process accumulation,...
Banana phytoliths are considered a suitable tool in archaeology to track the history of human populations involved banana cultivation and dispersal throughout tropical world. This study is confined an initial investigation species Musa acuminata Colla its edible diploid triploid derivatives. Slight morphological and/or morphometrical differences volcaniform can be expected because very complex bi-specific phylogeny banana. A stepwise procedure analysis these therefore required.Analysis 21...