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Organization profile
Organisation profile
The Maritime Cultures Research Institute (MARI) is a fundamental research center that explores how people in or close to a maritime environment created particular ‘fluid’ cultures and societies based on connectivity and transience. Seas and coastal areas, including islands, estuarine and riverine environments, are liminal zones where products, people and ideas are exchanged and transformed. Indeed, traveling the seas connects people and coastal and riverine societies are well known for their ‘access’ to the world, both from the material as well as immaterial point of view. Liminal makes central, so to speak.
The center investigates the archaeology of maritime cultures and societies, which includes:
- the comparative study of societal and environmental dynamics, crises and resilience and the interaction between people and landscape
- the investigation of travels, connections and exchanges;
- access to and transfers of material culture and (cultural) knowledge.
It also comprises the study of a particular ‘maritime’ sense of place and identity, as well as the particular spaces and environments in which these travels and transactions take place, such as ships and vessels, ports of trade, towns and coastal landscapes.
In short, MARI studies what it means to know the sea(s) and what lies beyond. The center’s predominant geographical focus is Europe. It aims to study, compare and connect the archaeology of the North Sea World to the (Eastern) Mediterranean, from Cyprus to Iceland, from prehistory to modernity, though no hard geographical limit is imposed. As a research center with a focus on the fluidity as well as the transfer of things and thoughts, MARI is an intrinsically interdisciplinary endeavour. Our research includes material culture studies, archaeological sciences with particular specialisations in geoarchaeology, bioarchaeology and environmental archaeology, landscape archaeology, underwater archaeology and more. To cultivate true interdisciplinarity, MARI collaborates closely with other research groups at the VUB such as AMGC, BPHOT, FOST, HOST and SURF, as well as university departments in Belgium and abroad.
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Profiles
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Jan Coenaerts
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics - Academic
- Maritime Cultures Research Institute
Person: Researcher, Guest professor
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Marc De Bie
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Maritime Cultures Research Institute
- History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics - Academic
- Earth System Sciences
Person: Researcher, Professor
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OZR3922: Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - UHasselt, LUO Dan
17/01/22 → 16/01/26
Project: Fundamental
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OZR3757: Unraveling past urbanisation: geoarchaeology brings to light the invisible record of towns in Northwestern Europe
1/07/21 → 30/06/25
Project: Fundamental
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59. The peat profile of Rue des Boîteux–Rue d’Argent (BR295), Senne valley, Brussels (Belgium)
Marinova, E., Devos, Y., Speleers, L. & Modrie, S., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In : Grana. 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies
James, H. F., Willmes, M., Adams, S., Mathison, K., Ulrichsen, A., Wood, R., Valera, A. C., Frieman, C. J. & Grun, R., 30 Jun 2022, In : Journal of Archaeological Science. 142Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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An integrative skeletal paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers
Marciniak, S., Bergey, C., Silva, A. M., Haluszko, A., Furmanek, M., Veselka, B., Veleminsky, P., Vercellotti, G., Wahl, J., Zarina, G., Longhi, C., Kolar, J., Garrido-Pena, R., Flores-Fernandez, R., Herrero-Corral, A. M., Simalcsik, A., Muller, W., Sheridan, A., Miliauskiene, Z., Jankauskas, R. & 21 others, , 12 Apr 2022, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119, 15, p. 1-12 12 p., e2106743119.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Archeologische natuurbegraafplekken? Een perspectiefonderzoek
De Bie, M. & Dolman, N., Apr 2022, In : M&L - Monumenten, Landschappen en Archeologie. 41, 2, p. 39-52 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Constructing A New Incremental Isotopic Methodology For Human Dental Enamel: A Preliminary Examination
Griffith, J. I., James, H., Tran, H-Y., Veselka, B., Cheung, C., Gregoir, H. & Snoeck, C., 19 Apr 2022.Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster
Activities
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CAA 2023 conference
Ralf Vandam (Organiser)3 Apr 2023 → 6 Apr 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing an event at an external academic organisation
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Relicten van een Romeinse landindeling in het Meerdaalwoud?
Erwin Meylemans (Speaker), Ben Bellefroid (Speaker), Marc De Bie (Speaker), Jean Poesen (Speaker)30 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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The Truth in the Tooth: Reconstructing and Comparing Human Life Histories in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Europe
Jacob Griffith (Participant), Christophe Snoeck (Supervisor), Barbara Veselka (Participant), Karin Nys (Supervisor), Rick Schulting (Supervisor)28 Feb 2022Activity: Other › Written proposal
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Leuven University Press (Publisher)
Ralf Vandam (Editor)2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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The Holocene (Journal)
Ralf Vandam (Editor)2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
Equipment
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AMGC - Fourier Transform Infra-Red Lab
Philippe Claeys (Manager) & Christophe Snoeck (Manager)
Analytical, Environmental & Geo-ChemistryFacility/equipment: Facility
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AMGC - Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Lab.
Philippe Claeys (Scientific coordinator), Christophe Snoeck (Scientific coordinator), Steven Goderis (Scientific coordinator) & Martyna Kopec (Infrastructure coordinator)
Analytical, Environmental & Geo-ChemistryFacility/equipment: Facility › e-resource/single sited