Publicaties
Forgeries and Archaeology KU Leuven
Isotopic Analysis: Inorganic Remains KU Leuven
Lead isotope analysis for provenancing ancient materials: a comparison of approaches KU Leuven
Lead isotope analysis has been used to determine the provenance of metals such as lead, silver and bronze for many decades. Nevertheless, different approaches to interpret lead isotopic ratios have been proposed. In this study, three methods to couple the lead isotopic signature of archaeological artefacts to their possible mineral resources will be compared: the conventional assessment of biplots, a clustering method combined with calculating ...
A contribution to the study of copper production in the Iron Age polity of Paphos in Cyprus KU Leuven
Magical practices? A non-normative Roman imperial cremation at Sagalassos KU Leuven
Many thousands of burials have been excavated from across the Roman world, documenting a variety of funerary practices and rites. Individual burials, however, sometimes stand out for their atypical characteristics. The authors report the discovery of a cremation burial from ancient Sagalassos that differs from contemporaneous funerary deposits. In this specific context, the cremated human remains were not retrieved but buried in situ, surrounded ...
Provenancing 16th and 17th century CE building timbers in Denmark-combining dendroprovenance and Sr isotopic analysis KU Leuven
Dendrochronology (tree-ring analysis) allows us to precisely date and identify the origin of timber from historic contexts. However, reference datasets to determine the origin can include timber of non-local origin. Therefore, we have applied Sr isotopic on timbers from three buildings in Jutland, Denmark, mostly dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries CE to improve and refine the provenance identification. The dendrochronology ...