The Team

The Team

 

Peter A. J. Attema

Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Univesity of Groningen
p.a.j.attema@rug.nl

Peter Attema has been professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of the University of Groningen since December 1999. He is currently director of the research institute Groningen Institute of Archaeology, and is a member of the National Research School Archon. His main research interests are the processes of centralization and early urbanization in Central and south Italy and the interaction of Greek and Roman colonization with indigenous societies in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. He directs several landscape-archaeological and excavation projects and is (co-)author and editor of monographs, journals, reports and peer-reviewed papers (full list). Since 2002, he has been promoter of twelve successful PhD’s in archaeology and second promoter of two successful PhD’s in Ancient History. He has served on dissertation committees in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy.

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Peter A. J. Attema

Peter A. J. Attema

Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Univesity of Groningen

Jan Sevink

Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam
J.Sevink@uva.nl

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Jan Sevink

Jan Sevink

Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam

Corrie Bakels

Professor, Faculty of Archaeology, Archaeological Sciences Bio-Archaeology
c.c.bakels@arch.leidenuniv.nl
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Corrie Bakels

Corrie Bakels

Professor, Faculty of Archaeology, Archaeological Sciences Bio-Archaeology

Michael H. Field

Associate professor, Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden
m.field@arch.leidenuniv.nl

After finishing his Ph.D. studies, which focused on the taphonomy of plant remains in lacustrine and fluvial environments, Michael Field spent four years in the Sub-department of Quaternary Research in the Botany School, Cambridge University working on the creation of the Last Interglacial (Eemian) pollen database. The open-cast mines (Tagebau) of central Europe caught Mike’s eye on his travels because of the large Pleistocene sections exposed by the exploitation of the brown coal. His next funded project was undertaken in the Laboratory of Geology and Geophysics at Leipzig University in eastern Germany where he investigated macroscopic plant remains from the Tagebau. After this he was awarded an EU Marie-Curie Research Fellowship and spent two years in the Laboratory of Botanical History and Palynology, Aix-Marseille III in France. This laboratory worked on some of the impressive French long palynological sequences. His plant macrofossil work complimented some of the palynological investigations that had already been published. Returning to England he spent a number of years as a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Quaternary Science, Coventry University. Often as part of a multidisciplinary team he contributed to the understanding of western European Early, Middle and Late Pleistocene landscapes in which early hominids lived and evolved. A short spell was spent in research management in the British Higher Education sector before arriving in Leiden.

Apart from his interest in European vegetation history and the reconstruction of Pleistocene environments he is also a keen field botanist. For example, he received funding from the British Government to investigate the response of the vegetation to the volcanic eruption on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

Mike has extensive excavation experience, for example, digging at the Palaeolithic sites at Barnham, Boxgrove, Clacton-on-Sea and High Lodge in England.

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Michael H. Field

Michael H. Field

Associate professor, Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden

Martijn van Leusen

Associate professor, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen
p.m.van.leusen@rug.nl

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Martijn van Leusen

Martijn van Leusen

Associate professor, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen

Luca Alessandri

Post-doc, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen
l.alessandri@gmail.com

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Luca Alessandri

Luca Alessandri

Post-doc, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen

Marieke Doorenbosch

Post-doc, Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Leiden
m.doorenbosch@arch.leidenuniv.nl

Marieke Doorenbosch is a postdoctoral researcher in archaeo- and palaeobotany. She is specialized in palynology and her main interest is to reconstruct landscapes based on pollen analyses. As a PhD student she was involved in the Ancestral Mounds project, for which she reconstructed the barrow landscape on the Pleistocene soils of the central and southern Netherlands.

Currently she is involved in two projects as a postdoctoral researcher. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the NWO project "The Avellino Event: cultural and demographic effects of the great Bronze Age eruption of Mount Vesuvius". For this project, a cooperation between the University of Leiden and Groningen, she is conducting research in Lazio, Italy. At 1950 BC the Vesuvius, a vulcano in the southwest of Italy, erupted. People who lived near the Vesuvius fled, possibly to an area North of the Vesuvius, Lazio. In her research Marieke is going to reconstruct the landscape in Lazio from the period before and after the eruption. When the refugees indeed had fled to this area changes in the landscape due to the influx of these people must be detectable. By means of pollen analyses, in combination with other disciplines, Marieke will try to give insight in this matter.

The second project Marieke is involved in is the VICI project "Economies of Destruction", led by David Fontijn. In the Bronze Age prestigious objects were not deposited in cult places or temples, but in unmarked natural zones. However, there must have been certain characteristics of the physical landscape by which such a location could be recognized (aide-mémoire). To get a better understanding of why specific locations were selected for deposition, GIS models will be developed to reconstruct the depositional landscape and to determine which combination of landscape features best explain the location of metal depositions. Vegetation might have played an important role and therefore Marieke will model the vegetation in the areas where sufficient ecological data are available, to include vegetation in the GIS models.

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Marieke Doorenbosch

Marieke Doorenbosch

Post-doc, Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Leiden

Wouter van Gorp

Post-doc, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen
w.van.gorp@rug.nl

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Wouter van Gorp

Wouter van Gorp

Post-doc, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen

Sonja Filatova

Student, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen
s.filatova@rug.nl

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Sonja Filatova

Sonja Filatova

Student, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen