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Charlotte Van Riet

@charlottevanriet.bsky.social

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PhD researcher @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🏛 History 🏚 Archaeology 🦷 Isotopes

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Charlotte Van Riet @charlottevanriet.bsky.social · 19d

🔔 Recap : Visited two international conferences this summer. @isbarchaeology.bsky.social, hosted by the University of Turin, And SMA conference in Leicester. Met plenty of researchers, working on medieval archaeology and isotopes. 🧪🏰🦴 Came back to Brussels with new ideas and inspiration! 🤔 ✍

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Charlotte Van Riet @charlottevanriet.bsky.social · May 15

Very interesting new article tackling a long-standing debate concerning the tensions between seigneurial lordship and capitalist forces in Flanders! 🏰
doi.org/10.1093/past...

Charlotte Van Riet @charlottevanriet.bsky.social · Apr 9

Received a tour at the excavations of the (first) castle of the counts of Flanders in Ypres today! A very exciting find regarding the earliest history of the city, and for my research on the city's earliest city-dwellers... 🏰 @amgc-vub.bsky.social @shoc-vub.bsky.social

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Charlotte Van Riet @charlottevanriet.bsky.social · Mar 25

Very excited to start the labwork for this PhD project!
More on the earliest medieval city-dwellers coming soon... 🦷🦴

Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

📞 Ypres calling! Special delivery📦🚚

Barbara, Martijn, and Charlotte visited the BAAC depot last Friday and collected the first batch of skeletons from the Sint-Maarten parish in Ypres🦴

But who were these medieval city-dwellers, and where did they come from..?🧪💀

Like for part 2?🤔

#Sr&O #osteology

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SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social · Feb 4

Ypres was one of 13th-century Europe’s economic powerhouses. Bart Lambert’s MOTC project drew on isotopic analyses of human skeletons to reconstruct mobility patterns of its inhabitants. Their new paper discusses evidence of regional, female and children’s mobility.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mobility in a medieval industrial city: an isotopic study of skeletal evidence from 13th -14th century Ypres (Belgium) - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Mobility to and from cities represents an essential aspect of urban development in Flanders (Belgium) during the second half of the Middle Ages (AD 1000 – AD 1500). The city of Ypres was situated in o...

link.springer.com

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Charlotte Van Riet @charlottevanriet.bsky.social · Dec 17

A merry Christmas from the Brussels' historians 🎅🌲

SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social · Dec 17

SHOC wishes you all happy holidays! See you in 2025 🥳

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Dec 11

The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!

Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

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Charlotte Van Riet @charlottevanriet.bsky.social · Dec 5

On 01.11, I started my PhD @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel with @amgc-vub.bsky.social & @shoc-vub.bsky.social thanks to funding from the FWO. I will be researching: The first (medieval) city-dwellers; where they came from, their socio-eco background, and how they shaped their urban environments. 💀🏚

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