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…

This article, written by Koen Ottenheym, examines how cities in the late 16th and 17th centuries used knowledge about the Roman limes.

In this epilogue, Garidou, Winkelmolen and van Houtum draw upon an inspiring and thought-provoking anthology of chapters on borders, boundaries, liminality, and transgression.

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.”

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 …

Koen Ottenheym’s article on the “rediscovery” of the Roman Limes in the 16th century is published in Burgen und Schlösser – Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege 63 (2022), 3. This article is written in German and can be read here

The first C-Limes article was published last week in the Journal of Archaeological Science written by Lisette Kootker and Stijn Heeren. The article, titled “A triple isotope approach (SR-O-C_ to assess human mobility dynamics in the Lower Germanic limes borderscape (40-470 CE)”, highlights the relationship between political-military instability and increased human mobility during the Late Roman period in the Netherlands.