Hans Beeckman
Biographic Data
| ID | 165671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Beeckman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Beeckman |
| SIGNATURE | BEECKMAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Museum for Central Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8954-6277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bridging technology and culture
Knowing the wood species of an art object facilitates its international travel, as well as insight into the object function and manufacturing. • X-ray μCT offers a non-invasive alternative to wood identification of heritage objects. • Through identifying the wood species, a link is formed between the properties of the wood and the original context of the object. Wood identification of cultural heritage objects is vital for facilitating their inte…
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
The earliest iron-producing communities in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa
In 2015 the KongoKing research project team excavated the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites situated in the Kongo-Central Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). All are part of the Kay Ladio Group. This is the first detailed publication on this cultural group, to which no contemporary ones can currently be linked, either from the Atlantic coast of Congo-Brazzaville or from along the Congo River and its tributaries upstream of Kinshasa. D…
L’évolution de la composition de la forêt dans la région du Bas-Congo (1800 bp – présent
Wannes Hubau, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Hans Beeckman, L’évolution de la composition de la forêt dans la région du Bas-Congo (1800 bp – présent, Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo, pp. 19-30
Timber for the trenches
Forests and rivers
High spatial resolution of late-Holocene human activities in the moist forests of central Africa using soil charcoal and charred botanical remains
Palaeoecological and archaeological studies have demonstrated that human populations have long inhabited the moist forests of central Africa. However, spatial and temporal patterns of human activities have hardly been investigated with satisfactory accuracy. In this study, we propose to characterize past human activities at local scale by using a systematic quantitative and qualitative methodology based on soil charcoal and charred botanical rema…
New Evidence of Human Activities During the Holocene in the Lowland Forests of the Northern Congo Basin
In the last decade, the myth of the pristine tropical forest has been seriously challenged. In central Africa, there is a growing body of evidence for past human settlements along the Atlantic forests, but very little information is available about human activities further inland. Therefore, this study aimed at determining the temporal and spatial patterns of human activities in an archaeologically unexplored area of 110,000 km 2 located in the n…
The olive-branch dating of the Santorini eruption
The date of the volcanic eruption of Santorini that caused extensive damage toMinoan Crete has been controversial since the 1980s. Some have placed the event in the late seventeenth century BC. Others have made the case for a younger date of around 1500 BC. A recent contribution to that controversy has been the dating of an olive tree branch preserved within the volcanic ash fall on Santorini. In this debate feature Paolo Cherubini and colleagues…
Ancient charcoal as a natural archive for paleofire regime and vegetation change in the Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Charcoal was sampled in four soil profiles at the Mayumbe forest boundary (DRC). Five fire events were recorded and 44 charcoal types were identified. One stratified profile yielded charcoal assemblages around 530 cal yr BP and > 43.5 cal ka BP in age. The oldest assemblage precedes the period of recorded anthropogenic burning, illustrating occasional long-term absence of fire but also natural wildfire occurrences within tropical rainforest. No o…
Archaeological charcoals as archives for firewood preferences and vegetation composition during the late Holocene in the southern Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Oaks, tree-rings and wooden cultural heritage
Dendrochronology in suboptimal conditions
The initial history of bananas in Africa. A reply to Jan Vansina, Azania , 2003
Provenancing Baltic timber from art historical objects
A xylarium for the sustainable management of biodiversity
Introduction: wood and the Neolithic revolutionSome scientific disciplines base their methodology on the analysis of documents. Others obtain their raw data mainly through experiments and observations, both in the laboratory and in the field. The study material for a third category of disciplines is being kept in big scientific collections. As such, collections exist with animal specimens for zoological research, mineral and stone collections for…
First archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in central Africa during the third millennium before present
Provenancing Baltic timber from art historical objects
First archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in central Africa during the third millennium before present
New Evidence of Human Activities During the Holocene in the Lowland Forests of the Northern Congo Basin
In the last decade, the myth of the pristine tropical forest has been seriously challenged. In central Africa, there is a growing body of evidence for past human settlements along the Atlantic forests, but very little information is available about human activities further inland. Therefore, this study aimed at determining the temporal and spatial patterns of human activities in an archaeologically unexplored area of 110,000 km 2 located in the n…
Forests and rivers
High spatial resolution of late-Holocene human activities in the moist forests of central Africa using soil charcoal and charred botanical remains
Palaeoecological and archaeological studies have demonstrated that human populations have long inhabited the moist forests of central Africa. However, spatial and temporal patterns of human activities have hardly been investigated with satisfactory accuracy. In this study, we propose to characterize past human activities at local scale by using a systematic quantitative and qualitative methodology based on soil charcoal and charred botanical rema…
The earliest iron-producing communities in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa
In 2015 the KongoKing research project team excavated the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites situated in the Kongo-Central Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). All are part of the Kay Ladio Group. This is the first detailed publication on this cultural group, to which no contemporary ones can currently be linked, either from the Atlantic coast of Congo-Brazzaville or from along the Congo River and its tributaries upstream of Kinshasa. D…
Dendrochronology in suboptimal conditions
The olive-branch dating of the Santorini eruption
The date of the volcanic eruption of Santorini that caused extensive damage toMinoan Crete has been controversial since the 1980s. Some have placed the event in the late seventeenth century BC. Others have made the case for a younger date of around 1500 BC. A recent contribution to that controversy has been the dating of an olive tree branch preserved within the volcanic ash fall on Santorini. In this debate feature Paolo Cherubini and colleagues…
The initial history of bananas in Africa. A reply to Jan Vansina, Azania , 2003
Timber for the trenches
Archaeological charcoals as archives for firewood preferences and vegetation composition during the late Holocene in the southern Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
First archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in central Africa during the third millennium before present
A xylarium for the sustainable management of biodiversity
Introduction: wood and the Neolithic revolutionSome scientific disciplines base their methodology on the analysis of documents. Others obtain their raw data mainly through experiments and observations, both in the laboratory and in the field. The study material for a third category of disciplines is being kept in big scientific collections. As such, collections exist with animal specimens for zoological research, mineral and stone collections for…
Provenancing Baltic timber from art historical objects
Dendrochronology in suboptimal conditions
The initial history of bananas in Africa. A reply to Jan Vansina, Azania , 2003
Oaks, tree-rings and wooden cultural heritage
Ancient charcoal as a natural archive for paleofire regime and vegetation change in the Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Charcoal was sampled in four soil profiles at the Mayumbe forest boundary (DRC). Five fire events were recorded and 44 charcoal types were identified. One stratified profile yielded charcoal assemblages around 530 cal yr BP and > 43.5 cal ka BP in age. The oldest assemblage precedes the period of recorded anthropogenic burning, illustrating occasional long-term absence of fire but also natural wildfire occurrences within tropical rainforest. No o…
Archaeological charcoals as archives for firewood preferences and vegetation composition during the late Holocene in the southern Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
New Evidence of Human Activities During the Holocene in the Lowland Forests of the Northern Congo Basin
In the last decade, the myth of the pristine tropical forest has been seriously challenged. In central Africa, there is a growing body of evidence for past human settlements along the Atlantic forests, but very little information is available about human activities further inland. Therefore, this study aimed at determining the temporal and spatial patterns of human activities in an archaeologically unexplored area of 110,000 km 2 located in the n…
The olive-branch dating of the Santorini eruption
The date of the volcanic eruption of Santorini that caused extensive damage toMinoan Crete has been controversial since the 1980s. Some have placed the event in the late seventeenth century BC. Others have made the case for a younger date of around 1500 BC. A recent contribution to that controversy has been the dating of an olive tree branch preserved within the volcanic ash fall on Santorini. In this debate feature Paolo Cherubini and colleagues…
High spatial resolution of late-Holocene human activities in the moist forests of central Africa using soil charcoal and charred botanical remains
Palaeoecological and archaeological studies have demonstrated that human populations have long inhabited the moist forests of central Africa. However, spatial and temporal patterns of human activities have hardly been investigated with satisfactory accuracy. In this study, we propose to characterize past human activities at local scale by using a systematic quantitative and qualitative methodology based on soil charcoal and charred botanical rema…
Forests and rivers
L’évolution de la composition de la forêt dans la région du Bas-Congo (1800 bp – présent
Wannes Hubau, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Hans Beeckman, L’évolution de la composition de la forêt dans la région du Bas-Congo (1800 bp – présent, Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo, pp. 19-30
Timber for the trenches
The earliest iron-producing communities in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa
In 2015 the KongoKing research project team excavated the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites situated in the Kongo-Central Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). All are part of the Kay Ladio Group. This is the first detailed publication on this cultural group, to which no contemporary ones can currently be linked, either from the Atlantic coast of Congo-Brazzaville or from along the Congo River and its tributaries upstream of Kinshasa. D…
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
Bridging technology and culture
Knowing the wood species of an art object facilitates its international travel, as well as insight into the object function and manufacturing. • X-ray μCT offers a non-invasive alternative to wood identification of heritage objects. • Through identifying the wood species, a link is formed between the properties of the wood and the original context of the object. Wood identification of cultural heritage objects is vital for facilitating their inte…
Geography (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Biology (8 works) · Ecology (6 works) · History (5 works) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Geology (4 works)