
Symposium: Current Studies in Roman Settlement and Landscape Archaeology: Exploring Regional Dynamics
The symposium takes place on May 15th 2025 in Utrecht, and is organised as part of the NWO Constructing the Limes project and co-funded by the Archon research school.
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‘A Divine Inspiration for Border Studies; Conceptually Excavating the Polydivine Roman Border Landscape of Terminus, Janus, Mercurius, Trivia and Pluto’ by Paschalina Garidou, Henk van Houtum, Saskia Stevens and Luuk Winkelmolen
Title: A Divine Inspiration for Border Studies; Conceptually Excavating the Polydivine Roman Border Landscape of Terminus, Janus, Mercurius, Trivia and Pluto Authors: Paschalina Garidou, Henk van Houtum, Saskia Stevens and Luuk Winkelmolen Publication year: 2024 Publication type: article in journal Abstract What can we learn from the Romans regarding the understanding of borders? For various…
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‘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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