
‘Reception of the limes in cities along the Rhine and the Danube (16th and 17th centuries)’ door Koen Ottenheym
This article, written by Koen Ottenheym, examines how cities in the late 16th and 17th centuries used knowledge about the Roman limes.
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PUG collection: from collection of curiosities to valuable resource for science
It is a diverse collection of antiquities: the more than 15,000 objects of the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (PUG).
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C-Limes Newsletter June 2024
This newsletter will update you on the latest developments in our research project Constructing the Limes.
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Roles and collaborations in Constructing the Limes
How do the various disciplines and subprojects look within Constructing the Limes? And which partners are involved in the project? You’ll find out through the handy animation.
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‘We are all borderworkers’ by Paschalina Garidou, Luuk Winkelmolen, Henk van Houtum
In this epilogue, Garidou, Winkelmolen and van Houtum draw upon an inspiring and thought-provoking anthology of chapters on borders, boundaries, liminality, and transgression.
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‘Waiting for Today’s Barbarians: How the Fall of the Roman Empire Is Anachronistically Exploited to Serve a Contemporary Discriminatory B/Ordering and Othering Agenda’ by Luuk Winkelmolen, Paschalina Garidou, Henk van Houtum
In this paper, Winkelmolen, Garidou and van Houtum analyze the “Colosseum interview” of former U.K. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in which he pleads for fierce border control against refugees, “like the Romans did.”
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‘Archaeology meets Environmental Genomics: implementing sedaDNA in the study of the human past’ by Kadir Toykan Özdoğan, Arjen de Groot, Gertjan Plets
Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has become one of the standard applications in the field of paleogenomics in recent years. However, its application in archaeology has been limited and primarily focused on humans. This article argues …
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C-Limes Newsletter November 2023
This newsletter will update you on the latest developments in Constructing the Limes.
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Saskia Stevens wins the CHARM-EU Open Science Recognition Award
The first CHARM-EU Open Science Recognition Award was given to Dr. Saskia Stevens because of “her promising Citizen Science project and her outstanding achievement in promoting Open Science attitude”. This CHARM-EU Open Science Recognition Award is a fantastic recognition for the entire Constructing the Limes team, all our collaborative partners, and the inspiring ways we…
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NWO funding for study Lisette Kootker on human mobility in the Roman Netherlands
Earth scientist and team member of Constructing the Limes Lisette Kootker is one of the 61 researchers who will start a promising research project with the NWO Open Competition SGW XS funding. Kootker investigates how to research human mobility more accurately on archaeological human remains, by adding the lead isotope system. Focusing on identifying the…
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