
ROAM: a Regional Outlook on Ancient Migration
Migration, diet and health of the first permanent settlers of Belgium: inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives
The aim of this project is to generate regional-scale insights into the lifeways of the first modern humans to settle permanently in Belgium during the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. It achieves this through multi- and inter-disciplinary analysis of contextualised data from archaeological, palaeontological and anthropological assemblages whilst developing state-of-the-art analytical techniques in the fields of proteomics and stable isotope analysis.
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Project promotors
The project is led by a cross-faculty team of researchers.

Prof. dr. Isabelle De Groote
Faculty of Arts and Humanities: Archaeology

Dr. Maarten Dhaenens
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences: ProGentomics

Prof. dr. Philippe Crombé
Faculty of Arts and Humanities: Archaeology

Marta Costas Rodriguez
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
Project collaborators
This project consortium is strengthened by our collaborators who are experts in anthropology, isotopes, ancient genetics, zooarchaeology, dating analyses, archaeology and archaeobotany.
Ancient geneticist:
Eva Fernandez Dominguez
Zooarchaeologist:
Grégory Abrams
Archaeobotanist:
Koen Deforce
Anthropologist:
Michel Toussaint
Caroline Polet
Archaeologist:
Pierre Vandersloot
Emanuela Cristiani
Chemists:
Frank Vanhaeke
Samuel Bodé
Pascal Boeckx
Matthieu Boudin
Dieter Deforce