Leiden University

Alumnus, Archaeology

Alumnus

Thesis Title: Approaching High-Flux Interaction: Pottery, identity and overseas contacts in the later Early and Middle Bronze Age (2000-1000 cal BC) of North West Europe

About

I studied archaeology at Leiden University. My thesis focused on later Early and Middle Bronze Age overseas interaction and what the production of pottery can tell us about these issues and aspects of identity construction from a local perspective (taking the chaîne opératoire and the cultural biography of pottery as a starting point). Until now, studies concerning overseas interaction have mainly been executed from a metalwork-based and supra-regional perspective.

Besides this, I am interested in many other aspects of North West European prehistory (Bell Beaker studies, residential mobility, early monumentality and theory formation in landscape archaeology). I have also studied these and other aspects at Sheffield as an Erasmus student for a semester (Sept 2008- Feb 2009).

From September 2009 onwards, I worked (for 1 year) at the e-depot Dutch archaeology at DANS to compile a database on all unpublished archaeological excavations from 1900-2000 AD ('The Odyssee project'). On request, the final report of this project (in Dutch) can be provided.

Since September 2010 I'm working at the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed), as a researcher into later prehistoric archaeology of the Holocene parts of the Netherlands.
My first projects are on heritage management of Bronze Age monuments in West Friesland, prospection of later prehistoric inhabitation on the Dutch coastal dunes and the redevelopment of the archaeological knowledge infrastructure (Archis3.0, ABR, etc.).

During this time I will also remain active on research into other aspects of the prehistoric archaeology of North West Europe.