De Nederlandse stadsarcheologie heeft de afgelopen decennia een omvangrijke hoeveelheid informatie opgeleverd over de middeleeuwse stad in veel van haar gedaanten. Dit betreft onder meer het ontstaan, de topografie, de materiële cultuur en het functioneren van steden. De veelheid van opgegraven informatie is inmiddels zo groot dat het maken van syntheses een complexe aangelegenheid is geworden. Roos van Oosten kijkt voor het eerst in stadsarcheologisch Nederland systematisch over de grenzen ...

Osteoarchaeology is a rich field for reconstructing past lives in that it can provide details on sex, age-at-death, stature, and pathology in conjunction with the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the person's environment and burial conditions. While osteoarchaeological research is common in the Low Countries, many of the studies done on the excellent skeletal collections remain unpublished and therefore unavailable to a larger audience.

Following on the Urban Graveyards volumes, Osteo...

This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And what can archaeological knowledge contribute to the current discussions about the use, arrangement and depletion of our (local) environment?

This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And what can archaeological knowledge contribute to the current discussions about the use, arrangement and depletion of our (local) environment?