‘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.
Read more‘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.”
Read more‘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 …
Read more‘The “rediscovery” of the Roman Limes in the 16th century’ – by Konrad Ottenheym
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
Read more“A triple isotope approach (SR-O-C_ to assess human mobility dynamics in the Lower Germanic limes borderscape (40-470 CE)” by Lisette Kootker and Stijn Heeren
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.
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