ROAM
A Regional Outlook on Ancient Migration
Here you can find a list of publications by the ROAM consortium as well as some background reading.
Publications
Findings by the ROAM consortium
Publications
Halbrucker, É., Vandendriessche, H., van der Slot, P., & Crombé, P. (2022). First insights into the use of lithics artefacts from the Mesolithic site of Liège “Place Saint Lambert” (unit 3.2, SDT sector) (BE). NOTAE PRAEHISTORICAE, 42(1), 213–223.
Daled, S., and Burnett, A. (2023). Protein Extraction from Dental Enamel. protocols.io. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.8epv5j8n4l1b/v2
Pironneau, Camille, Kim Aluwé, Philippe Crombé, and Hans Vandendriessche. 2023. “L’ Exploitation Des Mammifères Au Cours Du Mésolithique Dans Le Nord de La Belgique : Le Cas Des Occupations Du Mésolithique Ancien de Kerkhove (Vallée de l’Escaut).” Bulletin de La Société Préhistorique Française 120 (4): 603–20.
Crombé, P., Pironneau, C., Robert, P. et al. Human response to the Younger Dryas along the southern North Sea basin, Northwest Europe. Sci Rep 14, 18074 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68686-z
Lectures
Halbrucker É., Dhaenens M., Boeckx P., Costa Rodriguez M., van der Sloot P., De Groote I., Crombé P.: Migration, diet and health of the first permanent settlers of Belgium from a Bioarchaeological Perspective. At the 28th EAA Annual Meeting, Budapest, 01. September 2022.
Burnett, A. C.: Palaeoproteomics: Bones and Stones from the Belgian Mesolithic', EuroPreh 2022, Portugal, 12th October 2022.
Robert, P.: A multi-isotope analysis to investigate diet and mobility of the first permanent settlers
of Belgium. Europreh 2022 (Portugal), 11th October 2022.
Burnett, A., Daled, S., Dhaenens, M., Deforce, D., De Groote, I., & Palmer, J. (2023). 'The Bone Proteome: creating a database of ‘normal’ variation in peptide composition of archaeological human bone'. At the 29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Belfast, 2nd September 2023.
Robert P., De Groote, I., Boeckx, P., Bodé, S., Vanhaecke, F., Dhaenens, M., & Crombé, P. (2023) The ROAM Project “Migration, diet and health of the first permanent settlers of Belgium”. An isotopic perspective. At the Journée de Préhistoire/Prehistorie Contactday, Bruxelles, 16th December 2023.
Pironneau, C., Vandendriessche, H., Crombé, P., van der Sloot, P., De Groote, I., & Abrams, G. (2023). The Ahrensburgian in Belgium: first insights from the faunal remains of Remouchamps. Journée de la Préhistoire, 16th of December 2023, Brussels.
Halbrucker, É., Pironneau, C., Goffette, Q, Vandendriessche, H., De Groote, I., Abrams, G., Crombé, Ph. (2024) MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO ANIMAL TRACES IN THE BELGIAN FINALPALAEOLITHIC
AND MESOLITHIC — CASE STUDIES FROM THE MEUSE VALLEY. At the 30th EAA Annual Meeting, Rome, 31st August 2024.
Pironneau, C., Robert, P., Vandendriessche, H., Abrams, G., Crombé, P., van der Sloot, P., & De Groote, I. (2024). Exploring the Ahrensburgian presence in Belgium from a zooarchaeological and isotopic perspective: the case of Remouchamps. Zooarchaeology in Transition(s): Subsistence Patterns, Cultural Changes and Continuity in European Prehistory through Old and New Tools, EAA, 28th-31st of August 2024, Rome.
Relevant background literature
A selection of ROAM relevant publications
Ancient Genetics
Sánchez-Quinto F, Schroeder H, Ramirez O, Avila-Arcos MC, Pybus M, Olalde I, Velazquez AM, Marcos ME, Encinas JM, Bertranpetit J, Orlando L, Gilbert MT, Lalueza-Fox C. Genomic affinities of two 7,000-year-old Iberian hunter-gatherers. Curr Biol. 2012 Aug 21;22(16):1494-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.005. Epub 2012 Jun 28. PMID: 22748318.
MATHIESON I., ALPASLAN-ROODENBERG S., POSTH C., SZÉCSÉNYI-NAGY A., ROHLAND N., MALLICK S., ... REICH D. 2018 — The genomic history of southeastern Europe. Nature, 555, p. 197.
MATHIESON I., ALPASLAN-ROODENBERG S., POSTH C., SZÉCSÉNYI-NAGY A., ROHLAND N., MALLICK S., ... REICH D. 2018 — The genomic history of southeastern Europe. Nature, 555, p. 197.
FELDMAN M., FERNÁNDEZ-DOMÍNGUEZ E., REYNOLDS L., BAIRD D., PEARSON J., HERSHKOVITZ I., KRAUSE J. 2019 — Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia. Nature communications, 10, 1, 1218.
JONES E.R., GONZALEZ-FORTES G., CONNELL S., SISKA V., ERIKSSON A., MARTINIANO R., BRADLEY, D.G. 2015 — Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians. Nature communications, 6, 8912.
Anthropology
BOCHERENS, H., ET AL. (2007). "Palaeodiet of Mesolithic and Neolithic populations of Meuse Basin (Belgium): evidence from stable isotopes." Journal of archaeological Science 34(1): 10-27.
MEIKLEJOHN, C., ET AL. (2014). "Radiocarbon dating of Mesolithic human remains in Belgium and Luxembourg." Mesolithic Miscellany 22(2): 10-39.
POLET, C. AND N. CAUWE (2002). "Les squelettes mésolithiques et néolithiques de l'abri des Autours (province de Namur, Belgique)." Comptes Rendus Palevol 1(1): 43-50.
TOUSSAINT, M., ET AL. (2001). "Apports récents sur l'anthropologie des Mésolitiques et des Néolitiques mosans." Anthropolgica et Praehistorica 112: 91-105.
Isotope analysis
BOCHERENS, H., ET AL. (2007). "Palaeodiet of Mesolithic and Neolithic populations of Meuse Basin (Belgium): evidence from stable isotopes." Journal of Archaeological Science 34(1): 10-27.
POLET ET AL. (2020). "Waulsort Caverne X: A new cave site with Early Mesolithic human remains in Belgium." Meoslithic Miscellany 28(2), 25-43.