Anton Ervynck
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 102615 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anton Ervynck |
| NOMBRES | Anton |
| APELLIDO | Ervynck |
| FIRMA | ERVYNCK A |
| AFILIACIONES | Flemish Community |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2016-8041 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 468 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Cattle trade at the dawn of the Modern Era
At the Apothecary
In 1996, a cesspit was uncovered in the backyard of Bruges’ Spanish nation house. The interdisciplinary study of this old rescue excavation sheds new light on life in the city’s international district between the late 14th and early 16th century. The refuse in the cesspit is what is left of several generations of traders, from a well-to-do apothecary, employing alchemical apparatus in the production of pigments, to Spanish traders documented at t…
Mobility in a medieval industrial city
Cremated animal remains and shattered pottery. Rare ritual deposits from the Middle to Late Bronze Age at Aalst – Siesegemkouter (Belgium)
Archaeological research at Aalst – Siesegemkouter revealed several pits within a Middle to Late Bronze Age settlement. Most of them hardly contained any artefacts, but one exception showed a structured stratigraphy with an abundance of finds, including a large amount of shattered pottery, charcoal and calcined animal bone. The study of this assemblage, and comparison with two other pits showing similarities, provides strong indications of a closi…
Ieper - De Meersen. Deel 1. Een kerk, kerkhof en abdij in de Ieperse binnenstad. Studie van de begravingen
Diet and mobility in early medieval coastal Belgium
The Environment and its Exploitation Along the Lower Scheldt River During the Roman Period (Wichelen, Belgium – Late 1st to 3rd Centuries AD)
The large number of rural Roman settlements known from the Low Countries is generally characterised by a poor preservation of ecological proxies due to the absence of waterlogged contexts. The riverside site of Wijmeers (Wichelen, Belgium), a small rural settlement located in the Lower Scheldt basin, represents a rare exception to this pattern. Due to the presence of a waterlogged sequence with Roman (late 1st–3rd centuries AD) waste layers, loca…
The pitfalls of diachronic comparisons
Anomalous Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Medieval Cremation Graves from Broechem (Flanders, Belgium)
As part of the study of the early medieval cemetery at Broechem (Belgium), human bones from 32 cremation graves have been dated through radiocarbon ( 14 C) analysis. It was noted that many of the dates were not in accordance with the chronological ranges provided by the characteristics of the cultural artifacts deposited in the graves. In fact, the human bones were “older” than the artifacts. Subsequently, a number of animal bones (in all cases f…
Have birds ever mattered? An evaluation of the contribution of avian species to the archaeozoological record of Belgium (Iron Age to recent times)
The oldest cereals in the coversand area along the North Sea coast of NW Europe, between ca. 4800 and 3500 cal BC, at the wetland site of ‘Bazel-Sluis’ (Belgium)
Assessing the Radiocarbon Freshwater Reservoir Effect for a Northwest-European River System (the Schelde Basin, Belgium)
The freshwater reservoir effect (FRE) for the Schelde basin (Belgium) is assessed for the Roman, Medieval and early Post-medieval periods by comparing historical and archaeological dates from individual archaeological deposits with radiocarbon dates on the remains of freshwater fish and terrestrial mammals from those same deposits. This is the first time such an assessment has been attempted for the Schelde basin. The FRE offsets prove to be subs…
Beef, pork and mutton
Simulating Trial Trenches for Archaeological Prospection
In this study we draw attention to the inherent variability in the results of trial trenching, when taking into account the countless variations in orientation and positioning of trenches. Grids of trial trenches were simulated time and again on the excavation plans of 16 archaeological sites from Flanders, Belgium. Orientation and positioning of the grid layout was shifted randomly, whilst the area coverage varied from 2.5% to 80%. The intersect…
Season of birth and sheep husbandry in late Roman and Medieval coastal Flanders
From the early Roman period, there is archaeological evidence for the exploitation of the Flemish coastal plain (Belgium) for a range of activities, such as sheep herding on the then developing salt-marshes and salt-meadows for the production of wool. During the early Middle Ages, this culminated in the establishment of dedicated ‘sheep estates’. This phase of exploitation was followed by extensive drainage and land reclamation measures in the hi…
Het oudheidkundig bodemonderzoek aan de Sacramentstraat te Tongeren. Eindverslag 1993
Twee proefsleuven in het zuidelijk gedeelte van het terrein hadden aangetoond dat het Romeinse bodemarchief daar door een recente zandgroeve vernield was
Middle-Holocene alluvial forests and associated fluvial environments
Analyses of pollen, plant macrofossils (seeds, fruits, wood and mosses), molluscs, diatoms and vertebrate (mainly fish) remains allowed a detailed reconstruction of a middle-Holocene alluvial forest and its associated hydrological conditions. The use of multiple proxies resulted in a taxonomically more detailed and environmentally more comprehensive understanding of terrestrial as well as aquatic habitats. The results demonstrate possible biases …
Dating Human Remains from the Historical Period in Belgium
An overview will be presented of stable isotope data (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) available from animal and human bones from Roman to post-Medieval Belgian sites. The data will be used to assess trends in the human diet and evaluate the possible impact of reservoir effects originating from the consumption of fish derived from marine or freshwater environments. Historical and archaeozoological data demonstrate drastic changes in fish consumption throughout…
Isotopic examination of links between diet, social differentiation, and Dish at the post‐medieval Carmelite Friary of Aalst, Belgium
Stable isotope ratios (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) were measured in human burials from the post‐medieval (16th–18th c. AD) Carmelite friary burial grounds at Aalst, a town in Flanders, Belgium. Dietary patterns of 39 adult individuals were analyzed, from a mixed monastic and lay population buried in three different locations, reflecting groups with differing social status. The data show significant variation in the consumption of perhaps meat, but certain…
Wood charcoal and seeds as indicators for animal husbandry in a wetland site during the late mesolithic–early neolithic transition period (Swifterbant culture, ca. 4600–4000 b.c.) in NW Belgium
Inferring animal husbandry strategies in coastal zones through stable isotope analysis
Hunting, gathering, fishing and herding
At Doel, in the lower basin of the river Scheldt, excavations have revealed camp sites of the Swifterbant culture dating back to the second half of the fifth millennium BC. They document the transition period from the Late Mesolithic to the Early Neolithic in Sandy Flanders (NW Belgium). The sites were situated on the top of sandy ridges which were covered with an alluvial hardwood forest vegetation and surrounded by wetlands. Only burnt animal r…
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratio analysis of freshwater, brackish and marine fish from Belgian archaeological sites (1st and 2nd millennium AD)
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios were measured in 157 fish bone collagen samples from 15 different archaeological sites in Belgium which ranged in ages from the 3rd to the 18th c. AD. Due to diagenetic contamination of the burial environment, only 63 specimens produced results with suitable C : N ratios (2.9–3.6). The selected bones encompass a wide spectrum of freshwater, brackish, and marine taxa (N = 18), and this is reflected in the …
Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones
Fish bones and amphorae
status: Published
Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones
Born Free ? New Evidence for the Status of Sus scrofa at Neolithic Çayönü Tepesi (Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey)
A renewed analysis was undertaken of the Sus remains from all habitation phases at Neolithic Çayönü Tepesi, a site which spans more than two millennia and has been considered as among the oldest domestication sites of the pig in Western Asia. The research included age at death estimations, osteometrical analysis of both dental and postcranial material, and the recording of a dental defect (Linear Enamel Hypoplasia or LEH). The analysis revealed a…
Detecting the medieval cod trade
Beyond affluence
The statement, by the eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith, that luxuries are all things that are not necessities is too simplistic an approach to be useful within the context of zooarchaeology. To start with, all animal products could be regarded as unnecessary within the human diet. Therefore, a four-part subdivision is proposed, distinguishing between foodstuffs that fulfil basic physiological needs, those that fulfil imagined needs, those …
Inferring animal husbandry strategies in coastal zones through stable isotope analysis
Interpreting Developmental Stress in Archaeological Pigs
Isotopic examination of links between diet, social differentiation, and Dish at the post‐medieval Carmelite Friary of Aalst, Belgium
Stable isotope ratios (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) were measured in human burials from the post‐medieval (16th–18th c. AD) Carmelite friary burial grounds at Aalst, a town in Flanders, Belgium. Dietary patterns of 39 adult individuals were analyzed, from a mixed monastic and lay population buried in three different locations, reflecting groups with differing social status. The data show significant variation in the consumption of perhaps meat, but certain…
Fish Reservoir Effect on Charred Food Residue 14 C Dates
In order to verify the relative dating based on pot type morphology and decoration of the Swifterbant pottery collected at the Final Mesolithic site of Doel “Deurganckdok” (Belgium) and of the Late Iron Age pottery excavated at Grijpskerke (the Netherlands), direct radiocarbon dates were obtained on charred food residue preserved on the inner surface of numerous potsherds. In addition, a number of indirect 14 C dates were obtained from samples of…
Fish bones and amphorae
status: Published
Dating Human Remains from the Historical Period in Belgium
An overview will be presented of stable isotope data (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) available from animal and human bones from Roman to post-Medieval Belgian sites. The data will be used to assess trends in the human diet and evaluate the possible impact of reservoir effects originating from the consumption of fish derived from marine or freshwater environments. Historical and archaeozoological data demonstrate drastic changes in fish consumption throughout…
Hunting, gathering, fishing and herding
At Doel, in the lower basin of the river Scheldt, excavations have revealed camp sites of the Swifterbant culture dating back to the second half of the fifth millennium BC. They document the transition period from the Late Mesolithic to the Early Neolithic in Sandy Flanders (NW Belgium). The sites were situated on the top of sandy ridges which were covered with an alluvial hardwood forest vegetation and surrounded by wetlands. Only burnt animal r…
Eagle owl (Bubo bubo) pellets from Roman Sagalassos (SW Turkey)
Two concentrations of animal bones, almost exclusively from small mammals and wild birds, were found within the destruction debris of a Roman bath complex in Sagalassos (SW Turkey). The overall species spectrum, skeletal element representation, fragmentation and preservation condition of the bones indicate that they represent the prey remains of a large nocturnal avian predator, more precisely the eagle owl (Bubo bubo). Differences in skeletal el…
Season of birth and sheep husbandry in late Roman and Medieval coastal Flanders
From the early Roman period, there is archaeological evidence for the exploitation of the Flemish coastal plain (Belgium) for a range of activities, such as sheep herding on the then developing salt-marshes and salt-meadows for the production of wool. During the early Middle Ages, this culminated in the establishment of dedicated ‘sheep estates’. This phase of exploitation was followed by extensive drainage and land reclamation measures in the hi…
Assessing the Radiocarbon Freshwater Reservoir Effect for a Northwest-European River System (the Schelde Basin, Belgium)
The freshwater reservoir effect (FRE) for the Schelde basin (Belgium) is assessed for the Roman, Medieval and early Post-medieval periods by comparing historical and archaeological dates from individual archaeological deposits with radiocarbon dates on the remains of freshwater fish and terrestrial mammals from those same deposits. This is the first time such an assessment has been attempted for the Schelde basin. The FRE offsets prove to be subs…
A Pig all Seasons? Approaches to the Assessment of Second Farrowing in Archaeological Pig Populations
Anthropology and 14 C Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Relic Shrines
Since the early Middle Ages, relics of Catholic saints played an important role in popular religion in Europe. The shrines containing the human remains of the saints, however, are rarely studied, typically only when restoration becomes necessary. Formerly, such study was mostly restricted to the art-historical aspects of the artifacts, sometimes including the counting and rough identification of the bones. In this study, for the first time, and f…
Living in times of war
The material remains and environmental data recovered during a rescue excavation in 2002-03 in the castle of the new town of Middelburg-in-Flanders throw light on the site, region and landscape in wartime. The paper discusses the historical context at the turn of the 16th century, the excavation of the castle, the taphonomy of the chutes, the analysis of the artefacts and ecological data recovered from two garderobe chutes in the upper court, and…
Detecting the Seasonal Slaughtering of Domestic Mammals
It has been proposed that the detailed recording of tooth eruption and wear (following Grant 1982) could shed light on the evaluation of seasonal slaughtering patterns in medieval domestic pig populations (Ervynck 1997). However, justifiable criticisms have been raised against the methodology proposed, necessitating a review of data obtained and an evaluation of possible methodological biases. The present contribution presents an attempt to deal …
Lining up on the M 1
From the analysis of five collections of pig mandibles of Neolithic and medieval date, it is argued that the detailed observation of a common developmental tooth defect, i.e., linear enamel hypoplasia, can shed light on the impact of environmental conditions and husbandry practices on ancient swine herding. It is suggested that degradation of forest environment through the Middle Ages, was responsible for an increase of the frequency of LEH in do…
Diet and mobility in early medieval coastal Belgium
Een postmiddeleeuwse beerput aan de Hasseltse Poort te Tongeren (prov. Limburg)
Aan de Hasseltse Poort in Tongeren, in het noordwestelijke deel van de stad, werd door het Instituut voor het Archeologisch Patrimonium (I.A.P.) een noodonderzoek uitgevoerd naar aanleiding van de bouw van kantoren en appartementen. De site bevindt zich aan de rand van de middeleeuwse stadsomwalling, op de hoek van de Hasseltsestraat en de Pliniuswal. De archeologische ploeg onder leiding van Geert Vynckier en Alain Vanderhoeven, stelde er onder …
The pitfalls of diachronic comparisons
Anomalous Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Medieval Cremation Graves from Broechem (Flanders, Belgium)
As part of the study of the early medieval cemetery at Broechem (Belgium), human bones from 32 cremation graves have been dated through radiocarbon ( 14 C) analysis. It was noted that many of the dates were not in accordance with the chronological ranges provided by the characteristics of the cultural artifacts deposited in the graves. In fact, the human bones were “older” than the artifacts. Subsequently, a number of animal bones (in all cases f…
The Archaeofauna of the late Medieval, Islamic Harbour Town of Saltés (Huelva, Spain)
Foods rules and status
Se estudian en este informe los restos de peces procedentes de cuatro contextos de la abadía benedictina de Ename. La abadía, situada en un recodo del río Scheldt, fué fundada en el siglo XI y destruída a finales del XVIII. Las colecciones presentadas proceden de finales del XII y principios del XIII hasta aproximadamente 1700 d.C. y se comparan entre sí. Especial atención se ha dedicado a los cambios diacrónicos ocurridos en las reglas monástica…
Organische resten uit de waterput D te Burst (gem. Erpe-Mere)
In de groeve van de steenbakkerij Danckaert te Burst (O.-Vl.) kwamen sinds 1986 vier Romeinse waterputten te voorschijn. Dankzij de bereidwillige medewerking van de eigenaar R. Danckaert en de inzet van de N.D.O. en de Geschiedkundige en Archeologische Kring van Mere konden
Romeinse vondsten te Zingem
The role of birds in the economy of medieval and post-medieval Flanders
El trabajo evalúa el papel de las aves como aporte cárnico en el Flandes medieval y post-medieval. Los restos de aves son, aparentemente, infrecuentes en el registro arqueológico de yacimientos flamencos. ¿Es real o artificial esta escasez? El trabajo comenta una serie de agentes teóricos como potenciales responsables de esta infrarrepresentación. Dos ejemplos prácticos, sin embargo, demuestran que tal escasez es auténtica. Quizás en términos de …
Association for environmental archaeology
Een postmiddeleeuwse beerput aan de Hasseltse Poort te Tongeren (prov. Limburg)
Aan de Hasseltse Poort in Tongeren, in het noordwestelijke deel van de stad, werd door het Instituut voor het Archeologisch Patrimonium (I.A.P.) een noodonderzoek uitgevoerd naar aanleiding van de bouw van kantoren en appartementen. De site bevindt zich aan de rand van de middeleeuwse stadsomwalling, op de hoek van de Hasseltsestraat en de Pliniuswal. De archeologische ploeg onder leiding van Geert Vynckier en Alain Vanderhoeven, stelde er onder …
Foods rules and status
Se estudian en este informe los restos de peces procedentes de cuatro contextos de la abadía benedictina de Ename. La abadía, situada en un recodo del río Scheldt, fué fundada en el siglo XI y destruída a finales del XVIII. Las colecciones presentadas proceden de finales del XII y principios del XIII hasta aproximadamente 1700 d.C. y se comparan entre sí. Especial atención se ha dedicado a los cambios diacrónicos ocurridos en las reglas monástica…
On the Causes of Perforations in Archaeological Domestic Cattle Skulls
On the Causes of Perforations in Archaeological Domestic Cattle Skulls
We have undertaken a preliminary survey of the occurrence of cranial perforations which have been noted on the posterior portion of archaeological cattle skulls. The interest arose from the authors independent encounter with unusually high frequencies of this condition in assemblages from Bruges and Lincoln and the subsequent search for an explanation. A rapid literature survey and direct contact with other colleagues in the field showed that the…
Detailed recording of the tooth wear (Grant, 1982) as an evaluation of the seasonal slaughtering of pigs? Examples from Medieval sites in Belgium
En principio, el registro meticuloso de la erupción y el desgaste dentario, de acuerdo con los criterios de Grant (1975, 1982), puede evidenciar si los animales, en este caso cerdos, fueron sacrificados a lo largo del año o sólo en épacas muy concretas del mismo. Tal aseveración ha sido aquí sometida a análisis a través de cuatro muestras procedentes de asentamientos medievales belgas de alta extracción social, tados ellos fuertemente dependiente…
A protocol for recording linear enamel hypoplasia on archaeological pig teeth
A method is proposed for recording linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) present on archaeological pig teeth. The methods described have been developed and tested on material from five archaeological sites of a wide range of periods; Durrington Walls (UK), Wellin, Ename, Sugny and Londerzeel (Belgium). Recommendations are made on what teeth, surface, cusp, and side to record, as well as on details of the visibility, the identification and the measuremen…
Tussen kapel en kerk
Aanduidingen over het bestaan van een vroeg-middeleeuws vrouwenklooster te Moorsel vinden wij, zij het dan op zeer versluierde wijze, in de heiligenleven van de H. Gudula en de H. Berlindis. Laatstgenoemde tekst plaatst de stichting van het klooster ongeveer in het midden van de 7de eeuw. Het heiligenleven van Gudula vermeldt daarentegen voor de 7de eeuw enkel een kerk. Het vrouwenklooster zou er volgens die tekst maar opgericht zijn na de verhef…
Lining up on the M 1
From the analysis of five collections of pig mandibles of Neolithic and medieval date, it is argued that the detailed observation of a common developmental tooth defect, i.e., linear enamel hypoplasia, can shed light on the impact of environmental conditions and husbandry practices on ancient swine herding. It is suggested that degradation of forest environment through the Middle Ages, was responsible for an increase of the frequency of LEH in do…
Lining up on the M 1
The Archaeofauna of the late Medieval, Islamic Harbour Town of Saltés (Huelva, Spain)
On the causes of perforations in archaeological domestic cattle skulls
An example of ante-mortem cranial perforations in the skull of a European wisent (Bison bonasus) from Armenia is presented. The implications for reinterpreting the possible causes of this condition in ancient domestic cattle (outlined in a previous paper) are briefly discussed. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
C Dating and the Reconstruction of the Sedimentary Environment and Occupational History of Saltés (Atlantic coast, Southern Spain)
C Dating and the Reconstruction of the Sedimentary Environment and Occupational History of Saltés (Atlantic coast, Southern Spain)
The taphonomy and chronological context of shell deposits excavated at the location of the deserted late medieval harbour town of Saltés (Atlantic Coast, Spain) were investigated. An interpretation of the depositional history of the deposits was made on the basis of radiocarbon dating and points to a multiple origin of the assemblages. Although the shell deposits are much older than the medieval site, the investigation showed that they still had …
Interpreting Developmental Stress in Archaeological Pigs
Born Free ? New Evidence for the Status of Sus scrofa at Neolithic Çayönü Tepesi (Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey)
A renewed analysis was undertaken of the Sus remains from all habitation phases at Neolithic Çayönü Tepesi, a site which spans more than two millennia and has been considered as among the oldest domestication sites of the pig in Western Asia. The research included age at death estimations, osteometrical analysis of both dental and postcranial material, and the recording of a dental defect (Linear Enamel Hypoplasia or LEH). The analysis revealed a…
Assessment and Further Development of the Recording and Interpretation of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in Archaeological Pig Populations
Through the study of five archaeological collections, it has previously been established that there is a consistent pattern in the height distribution of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) on the molars of pigs. Consequently, the hypothesis has been published, that the non-random occurrence of LEH along the tooth's surface is explained by a consistent, underlying chronology, i.e. that of the major physiological events of birth, weaning and surviving …
Fish Otoliths and their Relevance to Archaeology
The growth increments were investigated of late medieval, post-medieval and modern otoliths of plaice, cod and haddock from the North Sea. Thin-sectioned otoliths were used to age all the analysed individuals and to reconstruct their growth patterns. In addition, fish lengths of the archaeological specimens were calculated after the relation between otolith width and fish length was established using modern material. The age and fish length distr…
Assessment and Further Development of the Recording and Interpretation of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in Archaeological Pig Populations
Through the study of five archaeological collections, it has previously been established that there is a consistent pattern in the height distribution of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) on the molars of pigs. Consequently, the hypothesis has been published, that the non-random occurrence of LEH along the tooth's surface is explained by a consistent, underlying chronology, i.e. that of the major physiological events of birth, weaning and surviving …
Fish Otoliths and their Relevance to Archaeology
The growth increments were investigated of late medieval, post-medieval and modern otoliths of plaice, cod and haddock from the North Sea. Thin-sectioned otoliths were used to age all the analysed individuals and to reconstruct their growth patterns. In addition, fish lengths of the archaeological specimens were calculated after the relation between otolith width and fish length was established using modern material. The age and fish length distr…
A Pig all Seasons? Approaches to the Assessment of Second Farrowing in Archaeological Pig Populations
Ensemble détritique ou contexte cultuel
Les fouilles menées de 1997 à 2002 par l' Institut voor het Archeologisch Patrimonium sur le terrain du Grijpenveld ont considérablement enrichi nos connaissances sur les zones périphériques des vici gallo-romains. Les fouilles révélèrent un quartier à vocation artisanale, funéraire et religieuse. Parmi les nombreuses structures en creux dégagées sur le site, certaines fosses se distinguent par la composition particulière de leur assemblage : off…
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