PhD defences

Since 1950, 95 PhDs were obtained at the Department Archaeology of Ghent University, of which 21 in the past 5 years.

2023 (5)

95. Amber Brüsewitz (23 November 2023), "Demes, farms, and gods : investigating the classical landscape of the Mesogeia"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Andries Johan Zuiderhoek, Prof. dr. Roald Docter

94.  Nasrin Karimi Moayed (19 June 2023), "Testing the potential of OSL dating for application to heated anthropogenic sediments (hearth and charcoal kiln remains)"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Johan De Grave, Prof. dr. Wim De Clercq

93.  Michele Abballe (6 June 2023), "A capital between lands and waters : reconstructing the evolution of the alluvial landscape around Ravenna through digital and field geoarchaeology"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Frank Vermeulen, Prof. dr. Fabio Saggioro (UVerona), dr.Jeroen Verhegge, dr. Devi Taelman (VUB)

92. Michiel Dekoninck (18 April 2023), "Salt of the North : An Interdisciplinary Study into the Technical and Social Organisation of Roman Salt Production in the Civitas Menapiorum (Gallia-Belgica)"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Wim De Clercq, Prof. dr. Koenraad Verboven.

91. Sarah Dalle (15 February 2023), "Exposing Hidden Transitions. Integrating Strontium and Radiocarbon Data from Archaeological Cremated Bone within the Belgian Landscape"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Guy De Mulder, Prof. dr. Christophe Snoeck (VUB)

2022 (4)

90. Léonard Dumont (2 July 2022), "Production et circulation des épées à poignée métallique de l’âge du Bronze en Europe occidentale"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Guy De Mulder, Prof. dr. Stefan Wirth (Université de Bourgogne)

89. Martina Polig (21 April  2022), " Investigating Cypriot-Minoan writing through 3D technologies "
Promotors: Prof. dr. J. Bretschneider, Prof. dr. S. Hermon (STARC/ Cyprus Institute).

88. Vittoria Canciani (14 April 2022), "Archaeological evidence of the cult of Mithras in ancient Italy"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Attilio Mastrocinque (UVerona), Prof. dr. Frank Vermeulen .

87. Ewoud Deschepper (23 February 2022), "House and yard in early medieval northern Francia : an archaeological study into the types, development and meanings of rural settlement and domestic architecture"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Wim De Clercq.

2021 (5)

86. Sophie Barbaix (30 November 2021), "The Water Landscape of Turpan: Karez and Their Context"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Jean Bourgeois, Prof. dr. Philippe De Mayer, Prof. dr. Chen Xi, Prof. dr. Alishir Kurban (Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, China)

85. David Cowley (20 September 2021), "From points to pattern, and pattern to population : long term settlement patterns and demography in East Lothian, Scotland"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Jean Bourgeois, Prof. dr. Wim De Clercq, dr. Birger Stichelbaut

84. Éva Halbrucker (7 September 2021), "Tenacious traces : the impact of burning and patination on microwear traces on experimental and prehistoric stone tools from the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Scheldt valley"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Philippe Crombé, Prof. dr. Veerle Cnudde (UGent)

83. Carina Hasenzagl (17 May 2021), "Made in Africa : production and consumption of African red slip ware in Late Antiquity
Promotors: Prof. dr. Roald Docter, Prof. dr. Verena Gassner

82. Hans Vandendriessche (22 April 2021), "Flintknapping in a changing world : the organization of lithic technology during the Lateglacial and Early Holocene in the Belgian Scheldt valley"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Philippe Crombé

2020 (5)

81. Gerben Verbrugghe (10 November 2020), "Little Flanders beyond Wales: a landscape archaeological study of row settlements in the British Isles and the County of Flanders"
Promotors: Prof. dr. W. De Clercq, Prof. dr. S. Vanderputten & Prof. dr. V. Van Eetvelde

80. Dimitri Teetaert (4 November 2020), "Routes of technology : pottery production and mobility during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Scheldt river valley (Belgium)"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Ph. Crombé

79. Adeline Hoffelinck (19 October 2020), "Roman economic space revisited : interdisciplinary pathways for understanding commercial and productive cityscapes"
Promotors: Prof. dr. F. Vermeulen, Prof. dr. P. Basso & Prof. dr. A. Zuiderhoek

78. Liesbeth Messiaen (25 September 2020), "Lithics in contact : the neolithization process in the Lower-Scheldt basin (mid-6th to mid-4th millennium BC) from a lithic perspective"
Promotors: Prof. dr. Ph. Crombé

77. Hendrik Hameeuw (11 September 2020), "Interactive imaging systems for ancient Near Eastern heritage artefacts"
Promotors: Prof. dr. J. Bretschneider, Prof. dr. P. Vandenabeele & Prof. dr. K. De Graef

2019 (2)

76. Jan Moens (19 December 2019), "De archeologie van leren schoeisel in de middeleeuwen en nieuwe tijden in Vlaanderen : een chronologische, technische en typologische studie : analyse en interpretatie"
Promotors: Prof. dr. D. Tys & W. De Clercq, joint PhD

75. Francesca Porta (15 March 2019), "Value and Territories. Pithoi, Storerooms, Redistribution across the Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean and Italy during the Bronze Age"
Promotors: Prof. dr. J. Bretschneider & Prof. dr. A. Vanzetti (Sapienca / Rome), joint PhD

2018 (3)

74. Sibrecht Reniere (22 November 2018), "Sourcing the stone in Roman Northern Gaul : on the provenance, use, and socio-economics of stone tools in a stoneless landscape : the case of the northern civitas Menapiorum"
Promotor: Prof. dr. W. De Clercq & Prof. dr. Veerle Cnudde

73. Possum Pincé (24 August 2018), "Clay in close-up : a spectroscopic and petrographic approach to ceramic production in the Kur River Basin (Fars, Iran)"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Peter Vandenabeele & Prof. dr. Ernie Haerinck

72. Nadine Nys (24 August 2018), "THE SPHINX UNRIDDLED The sphinx and related composite creatures : a motif of political-religious legitimation during the dynamical period of cultural changes appearing in the Late Bronze (1600-1200 BC) and the Early Iron Age (1200-800 BC) in the Eastern Mediterranean"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Joachim Bretschneider & Prof. dr. Ilse Schoep

2017 (3)

71. Alessia Coccato (16 May 2017), "Application of Raman and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopies to cultural heritage materials. The non-destructive examination of paintings, pigments, and their degradation"
Promotor: Prof. dr. P. Vandenabeele
Copromotor: Prof. Dr. W. De Clercq

70. Russell Palmer (27 February 2017), "An Archaeology of Comparative Colonialism: material culture, institutions, and cultural change in Malta, c. AD 1530-1910"
Promotor: Prof. dr. W. De Clercq & Prof. Dr. Roald Docter

69. Alain Henton (15 February 2017), "Le vaisselier céramique de l'Âge du Bronze final et du premier Âge du Fer dans le Bassin de l'Escaut et ses marges littorales. Première approche typo-chronologique et culturelle"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Jean Bourgeois

2016 (5)

68. Jan Trachet (21 December 2016), "Inland outports: An interdisciplinary study of medieval harbour sites in the Zwin region"
Promotor: Prof. dr. W. De Clercq
Copromotor: Prof. dr. Jan Dumolyn, Prof. dr. Marc Van Meirvenne, Dr. Geert Verhoeven

67. Maxime Poulain (20 December 2016), "The habits of war: Early modern ceramics in Flanders"
Promotor: Prof. dr. W. De Clercq
Copromotor: Prof. dr. Peter Vandenabeele

66. Vince Van Thienen (16 September 2016), "Abandoned, neglected and revived: Aspects of Late Roman society in Northern Gaul"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Wim De Clercq
Copromotor: Prof. dr. Nico Roymans

65. Nelly Venant (27 February 2016), "La céramique non tournée en Gaule du Nord: typo-chronologie, usages, approches économiques et culturelles (Ier s. av. n. è. - IVe s. de n. è.)"
Université Libre de Bruxelles & Ghent University
Promotor: Prof. dr. Laurent Tholbecq & Prof. dr. Wim De Clercq

64. Sadi Maréchal (30 May 2016), "Public baths and bathing habits in Late Antiquity. A study of the archaeological and historical evidence from Roman Italy, North Africa and Palestine between AD 285 and AD 700"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Frank Vermeulen

2015 (6)

63. Dimitri Van Limbergen (14 December 2015), "Pots, Presses, People and Land. The role of overseas export and local consumption demand in the development of viticulture and oleoculture in central Adriatic Italy (250 BC-AD 200)"
University of Pisa / Ghent University
Promotor: Prof. dr. Maria Letizia Gualandi - Copromotor: Prof. dr. Frank Vermeulen

62. Astrid Verhulst (3 July 2015), "It's all relative: the expression of identity through Old Babylonian seals from Sippar based on the reconstruction of fourteen families and their seal use"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Katrien De Graef

61. Jeroen Verhegge (29 June 2015), "Spatial and chronological prehistoric landscape reconstruction using geoarchaeological methods in the lower Scheldt floodplain (NW Belgium)"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Ph. Crombé - Copromotors: Prof. dr. Marc Van Meirvenne en dr. Tine Missiaen

60. Thomas Van de Velde (23 June 2015), "Black Magic Bitumen – An archaeometrical approach to 5000 years of bitumen imports in the Persian Gulf"
Promotors: Prof. dr. J. Bretschneider and Em. prof. dr. Ernie Haerinck

59. Kaatje De Langhe (17 June 2015), "Beyond the Beam. Evaluation and Application of Handheld X-ray Fluorescence in Archaeology"
Promotor: Prof. dr. P. Vandenabeele - Copromotors: Prof. dr. W. De Clercq and Prof. dr. Laszlo Vincze

58. Reem Samed Al Shqour (25 March 2015), "Aqaba Castle, origin, development and evolution of Khans in Jordan: An Archaeological Approach"
Promotor: Prof. dr. E. Haerinck - Copromotor: Prof. dr. R. Pringle

2014 (3)

57. Koen Deforce (25 August 2014), "Middle Holocene vegetation evolution and woodland exploitation in the Lower Scheldt valley"
Promotor: Prof. dr. P. Crombé

56. Kim Van Liefferinge (23 June 2014), "Technological change in the Laurion silver mining area during the fifth and fourth centuries BC: An archaeological contribution to the study of the Athenian economy"
Promotor: Prof. dr. R. Docter

55. Mahdokht Farjamirad (15 January 2014), "Mortuary practice in Ancient Iran from the Achaemenid to the Sassanian period (mid sixth c. BC to mid seventh c. AD)"
Promotor: Prof. dr. E. Haerinck

2013 (2)

54. Gertjan Plets (20 November 2013): "Heritages in the Making. Social Embodiement of cultural heritage objects and places in the multicultural Altai Republic"
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Bourgeois

53. Davy Herremans (24 June 2013): "Holy vows, worldly manners. Monastic space, consumtion practices and social identity in the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine"
Promotor: Prof. dr. W. De Clercq

2012 (6)

52. Devi Taelman (20 December 2012): "The Provenance, supply and use of stone material at the Roman town of Ammaia"
Promotor: Prof. dr. F. Vermeulen

51. Lieven Verdonck (18 December 2012): "High resolution ground-penetrating radar prospection with a modular configuration. Potential for the detailed imaging of buried archaeological remains"
Promotor: Prof. dr. R. Docter

50. Lieve Donnellan (14 November 2012): "Oikismos and Mythos. Networks of Apoikiai and Metropoleis of the "Westward Euboeans"
Promotor: Prof. dr. R. Docter

49. Jeroen De Reu (23 May 2012): "Land of the Dead. A comprehensive study of the Bronze Age burial landscape in north-western Belgium"
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Bourgeois

48. Angelo Verlinde (16 May 2012): "The Temple Complex of Pessinus: Archaeological Research on the Function, Morphology and Chronology of a Sanctuary in Asia Minor"
Promotor: Prof. dr. F. Vermeulen - Co-promotor: Prof. dr. em. J. Devreker

47. Werenfridus van de Put (20 January 2012): "Shape, image and society: trends in the decoration of Attic lekythoi"
Promotor: Prof. dr. R. Docter

2011 (3)

46. Dieter Jehs (30 November 2011): "An evolutionary approach to human behaviour in the Palaeolithic. The diet breadth model and competition during MIS 3 in France"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Ph. Crombé

45. Wouter Dhaeze (23 September 2011): "De Romeinse kustverdediging langs de Noordzee en het Kanaal van 120 tot 410 na Chr. Een onderzoek naar de rol van de militaire sites in de kustverdediging a.d.h.v. archeologische, historische, epigrafische en numismatische bronnen en drie casestudies over de militaire versterkingen van Boulogne-sur-Mer, Maldegem-Vake en Aardenburg"
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Bourgeois

44. Guy De Mulder (23 June 2011): "Funeraire rituelen in het Scheldebekken tijdens de late bronstijd en de vroege ijzertijd. De grafvelden in hun maatschappelijke en sociale context"
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Bourgeois

2010 (1)

43. Eline Deweirdt (17 March 2010): "De l'analyse spatiale à la caractérisation de sites de la fin de l'âge du fer et du début de l'époque gallo-romaine dans le nord et l'est de la Gaule"
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Bourgeois (Ghent) and Prof. dr. P. Méniel (Dijon, Université de Bourgogne)

2000-2009 (16)

2009 (4)

42. Wim De Clercq (2 July 2009): "Lokale gemeenschappen in het Imperium Romanum. Transformaties in de rurale bewoningsstructuur en de materiële cultuur in de landschappen van het noordelijk deel van de civitas Menapiorum (Provincie Gallia-Belgica, ca. 100 v. Chr. – 400 n. Chr.)"
Promotor: Prof. dr. A. Bosman

41. Geert Verhoeven (13 May 2009): "Beyond Conventional Boundaries. New Technologies, Methodologies and Procedures for the Benefit of Aerial Archaeological Data Acquisition and Analysis"
Promotor: Prof. dr. F. Vermeulen

40. Birger Stichelbaut (2 April 2009): "World War One Aerial Photography. An Archaeological Perspective"
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Bourgeois

39. Wouter Gheyle (24 March 2009): "Highlands and steppes. An analysis of the changing archaeological landscape of the Altay Mountains from the Eneolithic to the Ethnographic period"
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Bourgeois - Co-promotor: Prof. Dr. Rudi Goossens

2008 (2)

38. An De Waele (17 June 2008): "The small finds of ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, U.A.E.). A study of their characteristics, typology, dating and context with an analysis of their spatial distribution and the trade in and beyond the Persian Gulf in the 1st c. BC to the 2nd c. AD"
Promotor: Prof. dr. E. Haerinck

37. Parsival Delrue (7 May 2008): "Archaeometallurgical analyses of pre-Islamic artefacts from ed-Dur (Emirate of Umm al-Qaiwain, U.A.E)"
Promotor: Prof. dr. E. Haerinck - Co-promotor: Prof. Dr. Y. Houbaert

2007 (2)

36. Hélène Verreyke (11 December 2007): "Late Roman pottery in the Potenza valley. A framework for the study of towns, rural settlements and exchange in central Adriatic Italy"
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Frank Vermeulen

35. Bart Ooghe (18 April 2007): "Off the beaten track: travellers, maps and the landscapes of Ottoman Mesopotamia"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Michel Tanret

2006 (2)

34. Katrien Rutten (22 June 2006): "Het aardewerk van Ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, V.A.E.) uit de late 1ste eeuw v. tot de vroege 2de eeuw n. Chr. Technologische, typologische en vergelijkende studie met een analyse van de ruimtelijke verspreiding en handel in en voorbij de Perzische Golf"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Ernie Haerinck

33. Catharina Boullart (9 March 2006): "Bijdrage tot de nederzettingsproblematiek bij de Centraal-Italische ijzertijdcultuur van de Picini"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Frank Vermeulen

2005 (2)

32. Aurelie Daems (17 June 2005): "Human Figurines form Neolithic and Chalcolithic Iraq an Iran: A Reassessment of Function and Use through Material, Morphology, Type, Damage and Context"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Ernie Haerinck

31. Patrick Monsieur (22 April 2005): "Mediterrane amforen in de civitates nerviorum et menapiorum. Identificatie, epigrafie, chronologie, kwantificering en interpretatie van de vondsten te Velzeke en Kruishoutem (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Frank Vermeulen

2004 (2)

30. Joris Sergant (2 April 2004): "De aantrekkingskracht van een zandrug. Ruimtelijke analyse van een vroeg-mesolithische site te Verrebroek-Dok"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Philippe Crombé

29. Yves Perdaen (12 May 2004): "Technologische evolutie vanaf het Finaal-Paleolithicum tot en met het Vroeg-Mesolithicum aan de hand van enkele recent opgegraven vindplaatsen in de Wase Scheldepolders"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Philippe Crombé

2002

28. An Haentjens: "Attic Child Graves from the Submycenaean till the Orientalising Period (1100-600 B.C.). Contexts, Analysis and Interpretation"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Roald Docter

2000

27. Bruno Overlaet: "De Vroege IJzertijd in de Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan. Resultaten van 15 archeologische expedities in West-Iran (1965-1979)"
Promotor: prof. dr. Ernie Haerinck

1990-1999 (6)

1999

26. Kathy Sas: "Juwelen en juwelierskunst in Romeins België"
Promotor: Prof. dr. Hugo Thoen

1997

25. Koen Van Gelder: "Geometrische ceramiek uit Thorikos. De evolutie van de Attische protogeometrische, geometrische en subgeometrische ceramiek en de vondsten van de Belgische opgravingen in Thorikos"
Promotor: prof. dr. Hugo Thoen

1996

24. Philippe Crombé: "Epipaleolithicum en Vroeg- en Midden-Mesolithicum in Zandig Vlaande­ren. Bijdrage tot de studie van de typo-chronologie en de nederzettingsstructuur"
Promotor: prof. dr. Jean Bourgeois

1995

23. Koen Verlaeckt: "Sociale evolutie tijdens de metaaltijden in Denemarken.Analyse en interpretatie van"depotvondsten"als basis vo. e. modelvorming v/d samenleving i.d. late bronstijd en de vroege ijzertijd (ca.1000BC-0)"
Promotor: prof. dr. Jean Bourgeois

22. Catheline Metdepenninghen: "Dieren en samengestelde wezens in de urartische iconografie. 9de-7de E. v.C. Een typologische, stilistische en chronologische studie"
Promotor: prof. dr. Ernie Haerinck

1991

21. An Lentacker: "Archeozoölogisch onderzoek van laat-prehistorische vindplaatsen uit Portugal"
Promotor: -

1980-1989 (3)

1988

20. Frank Vermeulen: "De Romeinse bewoning in het zuiden van Zandig Vlaanderen. Regionaal-archeologische bijdrage tot het onderzoek v/d rurale bewoningsgeschiedenis"
Promotor: prof. dr. Jacques Nenquin

1987

19. Annick Daneels: "De ceramiek uit zuidelijk centraal Veracruz, Mexico. Studie gebaseerd op archeologische opgravingen"
Promotor: prof. dr. Jacques Nenquin

1985

18. Jean Bourgeois: "Aspecten v/d rurale bewoningsgeschiedenis te Comines-Warneton (Komen-Waasten) v/d oudste tijden tot het einde v/h Ancient Régime"
Promotor: prof. dr. Jacques Nenquin

1970-1979 (7)

1979

17. Francine Blondé: "De Griekse lampen van Thorikos. Typologische en chronologische studie van het lampenmateriaal opgegraven door het Comité voor Blegische Opgravingen in Griekenland tijdens de campagnes 1963-1976"
Promotor: prof. dr. H. Mussche

1978

16. Ernie Haerinck: "Bijdrage tot de kennis van de materiële cultuur van de Parthen in Iran: Typologische, chronologische en geografische studie van het aardewerk in Iran van ca. 250 v. Chr. Tot ca. 225 na Chr."
Promotor: prof. dr. Louis Vanden Berghe

15. Khazai Khosrow: "Le griffon: l’évolution d’un motif iconographique en Iran, depuis son origine jusqu’à la fin de l’époque sassanide"
Promotor: prof. dr. Louis Vanden Berghe

1977

14. Frans Verhaeghe: "De middeleeuwse landelijke bewoningssites in een deel van Veurne-Ambacht. Bijdrage tot de middeleeuwse archeologie"
Promotor: prof. dr. S.J. De Laet

1973

13. Hugo Thoen: "De Belgische Kustvlakte in de Romeinse tijd"
Promotor: prof. dr. S.J. De Laet

1971

12. Dominique de Clercq-Fobe (acad. 1971-'72): "De votiefspelden uit Luristan, Typologische en iconografische studie"
Promotor: prof. dr. Louis Vanden Berghe

11. Huyghe Maria: "De Kantharos in Attika. Typologische studie van de geometrische tot de hellenistische periode"
Promotor: prof. dr. H. Mussche

1960-1969 (9)

1969

10. Berthie Trentesau: "Bijdrage tot de typologie v/d gedamasquineerde gordelgespen in de Merovingische tijd"
Promotor: -

9. Eliane De Wilde (acad. 1968-'69): "De Sassanidische rotsreliëfs in Iran"
Promotor: prof. dr. Louis Vanden Berghe

1967

8. Jacques Nenquin: "Contributions to the study of the prehistoric cultures of Rwanda and Burundi"
Proefschrift Geaggregeerde van het Hoger Onderwijs

7. Marcel Desittere: "De Urnenveldenkultuur tussen Neder-Rijn en Noordzee (Ha A-B)"
Promotor: prof. dr. Sigfried De Laet

6. Francis Van Noten: "De opgravingen bij de Gwishobronnen (Zambia) en hun betekenis binnen het kader v/d Late Steentijd in Midden-Afrika"
Promotor: prof. dr. Sigfried De Laet

1966

5. Frieda Vandenabeele: "Kritische studie van te beschilderd vaatwerk der Cypro-Geometrische periode en van zijn relaties met het Nabije Oosten en de Egeïsche Wereld"
Promotor: prof. dr. H. Mussche

1963

4. André Van Doorselaer: "De Gallo-Romeinse begraafplaatsen"
Promotor: prof. dr. Sigfried De Laet

1960

3. Jacques Nenquin: "Zout. Een studie in economische prehistorie"
Promotor: prof. dr. Sigfried De Laet

2. Denise Homès-Frederiq (acad. 1960-'61): "Studie van het stempelzegel in Mesopotamië en Susiana van de oudste tijden af tot aan de vroeg-Sumerische periode"
Promotor: prof. dr. Louis Vanden Berghe

1950-1959 (1)

1950

1. Louis Vanden Berghe (29 September 1950): "De beschilderde ceramiek in Voor-Azië, van de oudste tijden tot ca. 2000 voor onze jaartelling"
Promotor: prof. dr. Louis Speleers