People and spaces have always been connected by routes: paths, trails, roads – on land, on water and sometimes even through the air, over hill and dale as well as over wooden planks, pavement and asphalt. Humans and animals followed them. The routes directed the circulation of raw materials and goods. They determined the paths on which humans fled from misery and danger, and they constituted the physical and imagined veins of networks between communities. All these cultural and biological c...

Met het huidige archeologisch bestel, de impact van de ‘third science’- revolutie en de toenemende aandacht voor erfgoed lijkt de Nederlandse archeologie sterker in de samenleving verankerd dan ooit. Maar wie zit er eigenlijk te wachten op het verleden dat archeologen menen te schrijven, en waarom eindigen de verhalen van archeologie vaak in de rafelranden van de canonieke geschiedenis?

Bij archeologie past geen kruideniersmentaliteit: ze is één van de meest krachtige manieren om geschi...

The collection of essays in this book focuses on the highlands of Iran in pre-modern times, reaching from the Paleolithic to the medieval period. What holds the diverse contributions together is an issue that is closely related to debates in our own times: crises and how societies in the past dealt with them. We start from the premise that general circumstances in the fractured topographic structure of the Iranian highlands led to unique relations between ecological, social, economic and poli...

Religious heritage has long been within the scope of academia, but very little research has been conducted on the heritagization of Catholic monasteries. This is remarkable considering the longstanding historical presence and social impact of these institutes that, in recent times, have also become well-visited spiritual centers and much-cherished heritage objects.

This book addresses this lacuna. It does so through examining the heritagization process of De Heilige Driehoek (The Holy Triang...

Wie in de negentiende eeuw van Nederland naar Nederlands-Indië wilde voer mee op een zeilend koopvaardijschip. De reis rond Kaap de Goede Hoop duurde enkele maanden en was gevaarlijk en oncomfortabel. Dat veranderde in 1869 toen het Suezkanaal werd geopend en geriefelijke stoomschepen passagiers in enkele weken naar de Oost brachten.

De 27-jarige Arnold Hogerwaard behoorde tot de laatste lichtingen Indischgasten die de oversteek op de ouderwetse manier maakte. Tijdens zijn vier maanden duren...

This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, in order to stimulate reflections about the impact of these rediscoveries on our culture in a period of great political transition.

By turning the light on lesser-known stories on a wider European and Mediterranean horizon (Greece, Holy Land, Eritrea, Malta, Norway), this book gives a strong contribution to the history of Christian archaeology. All arti...

“What Does This Have to Do with Archaeology?” is a collection of essays published on the occasion of Reinhard Bernbeck’s 65th birthday. The distinguished archaeologist Reinhard Bernbeck from the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin is an internationally highly esteemed colleague. This commemorative volume (Festschrift) reflects his great influence on many different areas of archaeological research from the Neolithic in Central Asia to contemporary archaeolo...

De eeuwen tussen 900 en 1100 zijn een belangrijke overgangsperiode in de geschiedenis van wat nu Nederland is. Het gebied verandert ingrijpend qua landschap, bevolking, bebouwing, taal en cultuur. Het wordt beter bereisbaar. Deze veranderingen creëren een Nederland dat herkenbaar is voor bezoekers van nu, met dijken om ontgonnen land, een burcht na elke rivierbocht en kerktorens aan de horizon.

Het Nederland van de 10de en 11de eeuw, grotendeels bestuurd door de bisschop van Utrecht, is de n...

This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Spain, in order to stimulate reflections about the impact of these rediscoveries on our culture in a period of great political transition.

By turning the light on lesser-known stories on a national horizon, this book gives a strong contribution to the history of Christian archaeology. All articles deal with many topics of the field (museology, cultural heritage protection law, history of r...

Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was a remarkable archaeologist whose work has transformed the study of later Neolithic societies in West Asia and he has inspired many colleagues and former student in their own pursuit of archaeology. Through the analysis of material culture his aim was to reconstruct social meanings and practices of societies in the deep past. In this volume a series of colleagues and friends pay tribute to the scholarship of Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, who died much too young, and presents a...