‘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
This article, written by Paschalina Garidou, Henk van Houtum, Saskia Stevens, and Luuk Winkelmolen, examines Roman border gods in relation to the understanding of borders.
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‘Digital Limes’ by Wouter Vos, Roeland Emaus, Jeroen Oosterbaan and Maarten Sepers
This article, written by Wouter Vos, Roeland Emaus, Jeroen Oosterbaan & Maarten Sepers, examines how ‘digital technologies’ have changed the way we study the limes.
Read more‘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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‘The Relevance of Sr–O–C Isotope Analysis on Burnt Human Skeletal Remains in Archeological and Forensic Contexts’ by Maura De Coster, Saskia Ammer, Tim Laning and Lisette Kootker
This article presents a comprehensive overview of the key archeological and forensic questions addressed by Sr–O–C isotope analysis of burnt skeletal remains. By examining the current state of the art and prospects, we aim to contribute to a broader understanding and potential advancements in the field of forensic isotope research.
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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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‘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
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“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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