L Vrydaghs
Biographic Data
| ID | 13354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Vrydaghs |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Vrydaghs |
| SIGNATURE | VRYDAGHS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2250-2883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A micro‐geoarchaeological investigation of a cultivation pit ( maite ) on Teti'aroa atoll, Central‐East Polynesia
Cultivation pits represented the principal form of horticultural features developed by past atoll communities in Central‐East Polynesia (CEP), and they are still utilised on some atolls in Oceania. The majority of information about the use of cultivation pits in CEP derives from ethnographic and preliminary archaeological investigations. The lack of excavations with rigorous stratigraphic sampling and analyses has constrained the recovery of envi…
Stratigraphic Narratives from the Eastern Torres Strait: A Multi-proxy Geoarchaeological Study at Ormi, Dauar Island
In the Eastern Torres Strait, a multi-proxy approach combining micro- and macro-scale geoarchaeological techniques has been applied at Ormi (Dauar Island), an archaeological midden site dating from 2600–2250 cal. BP. This study combines soil micromorphology with particle size analysis and geochemical analyses (Carbon/Nitrogen ratios; Total Phosphorus (Pt) and Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF)) to assess integrity of the deposits. The geoarchaeol…
A Matter of Scale: Developing a Framework for Environmental Archaeology in Brussels
Whereas environmental studies are today an important part of urban archaeological research in many towns and cities in Europe, they often focus on individual sites and do not always result in larger syntheses. To exploit the full potential of urban environmental studies in Brussels, Belgium, a specific framework has been developed, explicitly aimed at coping with the inherent complexity of urban investigations, including the variety of research t…
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology: Developments and applications
Auto-fluorescent phytoliths: Can we detect past fires in tropical and subtropical contexts
Primeras evidencias de cultivo europeo en el sitio Pueblo Guayascate 1 (Córdoba, Argentina): Siglos dieciséis y diecisiete
En este trabajo presentamos la primera evidencia de cultivo de Triticeae (trigo y/o cebada) en una parcela arqueológica del sitio Pueblo Guayascate 1, emplazado en la actual provincia de Córdoba, centro de Argentina. La presencia de especies euroasiáticas tras la instauración del orden colonial ibérico en el actual territorio argentino ha sido referenciada por la documentación escrita de los siglos dieciséis y diecisiete y corroborada por los aná…
Livestock husbandry in Islamic Cártama, Málaga, Spain: The micro and bioarchaeology of an open-air Fumier sequence
Multidisciplinary micro- and bioarchaeological analyses of late medieval deposits from suburban Cártama, Málaga, Spain, have, for the first time, confidently identified open air fumier deposits, which are supported by preliminary analysis of the faunal assemblage. This demonstrates that Andalusi livestock husbandry practices included periodically burning animal dung within corrals and pens, which is a long-standing practice in the Mediterranean r…
Understanding late medieval farming practices: An interdisciplinary study on byre remains from the historical centre of Brussels (Belgium)
During the preventive archaeological excavation in the cellar of the site of petite Rue des Bouchers in the historical centre of Brussels (Belgium), the waterlogged remains of a thirteenth century AD sunken byre (potstal) were discovered. The exceptional preservation instigated a multiproxy approach, including micro-archaeology, micromorphology, phytolith and endoparasite egg analysis on thin sections, palynology and the study of plant macroremai…
Under What Conditions do the Inflorescence Bract Phytoliths of Oat [ Avena sativa (L.)] Become Autofluorescent
Phytoliths from modern plants in the Canary Islands as a reference for the reconstruction of long-term vegetation change and culture-environment interactions
The Canary Islands were the first part of the Macaronesian archipelago to have been settled by humans. The various ways in which the indigenous inhabitants and later European colonisers interacted with the native and endemic flora is a central topic for archaeologists, geographers and ecologists. Floristic changes can be studied from phytoliths which are plant microfossils with a high potential for preservation in sediment deposits and they can h…
Looking at Phytoliths in Archaeological Soil and Sediment Thin Sections
Traditionally, phytolith research focusses on the study of bulk samples collected during archaeological field campaigns. However, phytoliths are frequently reported by soil micromorphologists studying their archaeological soil and sediment thin sections. Within these thin sections all components, including the phytoliths, are captured in the position they had in the original soil and sediment profiles. This opens perspectives towards a better und…
Paleoenvironmental study of modern charcoal making activity on forest soils in the Northern Vosges Mountains (Bitche, France): A multidisciplinary study of two remaining charcoal platforms and associa…
This multidisciplinary study aims to decipher the impact of ancient charcoal production on past and present‐day soils in the northern Vosges Mountains. Soil observations in the field and laboratory were complemented by charcoal and phytolith studies on large thin sections, molecular analyses of organic pollutants, and phytolith analysis on bulk samples. The complex technosol platform records an ancient natural soil sequence buried by a human‐made…
Phytolith Analysis on Soil and Ceramic Thin Sections
Nkang: Early Evidence for Banana Cultivation on the African Continent
Auto-Fluorescent Phytoliths: A New Method for Detecting Heating and Fire
A range of methods have been applied to identify whether phytoliths have been heated or fired: morphological alterations, changes in colour and opacity, refractive index and Raman spectroscopy. As not all phytoliths seem to be affected in the same way, these methods are obviously limited and none provide satisfactory results for sufficient discrimination between heated/burned and unheated/unburned phytoliths. We surveyed phytoliths in soil thin s…
International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature (ICPN) 2.0
BACKGROUND: Opal phytoliths (microscopic silica bodies produced in and between the cells of many plants) are a very resilient, often preserved type of plant microfossil. With the exponentially growing number of phytolith studies, standardization of phytolith morphotype names and description is essential. As a first effort in standardization, the International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature 1.0 was published by the ICPN Working Group in Annals of…
An integrated micromorphological and phytolith study of urban soils and sediments from the Gallo‐Roman town Atuatuca Tungrorum, Belgium
Tongeren is the only Roman administrative capital within the borders of present‐day Belgium. It developed in the first century A.D. and became an important civitas . Many excavations in the center of town have uncovered complex stratigraphic sequences, including dark earths, dating to Roman as well as early medieval times. Their interpretation, based on traditional archaeological methods, often remains problematic. A large‐scale excavation at Ver…
Phytolith Analysis on Soil and Ceramic Thin Sections
Visibility, Preservation and Colour: A Descriptive System for the Study of Opal Phytoliths in (Archaeological) Soil and Sediment Thin Sections
Phytoliths are abundantly reported in (archaeological) soil thin sections. However, standard description systems are largely missing. The purpose of this paper is to present a descriptive system describing three aspects of phytoliths in soil thin sections: visibility, preservation and colour (VPC). The visibility expresses to which extent the phytoliths are masked or surrounded by fine material. The preservation is an indicator for the physico-ch…
An integrated study of Dark Earth from the alluvial valley of the Senne river (Brussels, Belgium)
Medieval markets: A soil micromorphological and archaeobotanical study of the urban stratigraphy of Lier (Belgium)
Phytoliths in archaeology: Recent advances
A morphometric study of variance in articulated dendritic phytolith wave lobes within selected species of Triticeae and Aveneae
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Beyond redundancy and multiplicity. Integrating phytolith analysis and micromorphology to the study of Brussels Dark Earth
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Evidence for Banana Cultivation and Animal Husbandry During the First Millennium bc in the Forest of Southern Cameroon
First archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in central Africa during the third millennium before present
A morphometric study of variance in articulated dendritic phytolith wave lobes within selected species of Triticeae and Aveneae
Differentiating banana phytoliths: Wild and edible Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana
Why Bananas Matter: An introduction to the history of banana domestication
The multi-disciplinary contributions to this volume are all dedicated to the history of banana (Musa spp.) domestication and its significance. Wild bananas of the genus Musa have undergone a complex domestication history that has only been partially unravelled and remains to be fully elucidated. This volume is the first attempt to synthesise the latest 'state of the art' research across a range of disciplines (either in combination or separately)…
Beyond redundancy and multiplicity. Integrating phytolith analysis and micromorphology to the study of Brussels Dark Earth
Auto-Fluorescent Phytoliths: A New Method for Detecting Heating and Fire
A range of methods have been applied to identify whether phytoliths have been heated or fired: morphological alterations, changes in colour and opacity, refractive index and Raman spectroscopy. As not all phytoliths seem to be affected in the same way, these methods are obviously limited and none provide satisfactory results for sufficient discrimination between heated/burned and unheated/unburned phytoliths. We surveyed phytoliths in soil thin s…
Visibility, Preservation and Colour: A Descriptive System for the Study of Opal Phytoliths in (Archaeological) Soil and Sediment Thin Sections
Phytoliths are abundantly reported in (archaeological) soil thin sections. However, standard description systems are largely missing. The purpose of this paper is to present a descriptive system describing three aspects of phytoliths in soil thin sections: visibility, preservation and colour (VPC). The visibility expresses to which extent the phytoliths are masked or surrounded by fine material. The preservation is an indicator for the physico-ch…
Looking at Phytoliths in Archaeological Soil and Sediment Thin Sections
Traditionally, phytolith research focusses on the study of bulk samples collected during archaeological field campaigns. However, phytoliths are frequently reported by soil micromorphologists studying their archaeological soil and sediment thin sections. Within these thin sections all components, including the phytoliths, are captured in the position they had in the original soil and sediment profiles. This opens perspectives towards a better und…
An integrated micromorphological and phytolith study of urban soils and sediments from the Gallo‐Roman town Atuatuca Tungrorum, Belgium
Tongeren is the only Roman administrative capital within the borders of present‐day Belgium. It developed in the first century A.D. and became an important civitas . Many excavations in the center of town have uncovered complex stratigraphic sequences, including dark earths, dating to Roman as well as early medieval times. Their interpretation, based on traditional archaeological methods, often remains problematic. A large‐scale excavation at Ver…
Phytoliths in archaeology: Recent advances
The initial history of bananas in Africa. A reply to Jan Vansina, Azania , 2003
Des feux sacrificiels pour la divinityé solaire à ed‐Dur
Phytoliths have been identifed in a sample taken from a large black lens of burned sand located in front of the main entrance of a temple at ed‐Dur (Umm al‐Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates). Comparisons with a reference collection allow the identification of the sample with Phoenix dactylifera L., the date palm. Attention is also drawn to the interpretation and symbolism of the date palm in southeastern Arabia during the late pre‐Islamic era
Auto-fluorescent phytoliths: Can we detect past fires in tropical and subtropical contexts
Phytoliths from modern plants in the Canary Islands as a reference for the reconstruction of long-term vegetation change and culture-environment interactions
The Canary Islands were the first part of the Macaronesian archipelago to have been settled by humans. The various ways in which the indigenous inhabitants and later European colonisers interacted with the native and endemic flora is a central topic for archaeologists, geographers and ecologists. Floristic changes can be studied from phytoliths which are plant microfossils with a high potential for preservation in sediment deposits and they can h…
Special Issue: History of Banana Domestication
other
Des feux sacrificiels pour la divinityé solaire à ed‐Dur
Phytoliths have been identifed in a sample taken from a large black lens of burned sand located in front of the main entrance of a temple at ed‐Dur (Umm al‐Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates). Comparisons with a reference collection allow the identification of the sample with Phoenix dactylifera L., the date palm. Attention is also drawn to the interpretation and symbolism of the date palm in southeastern Arabia during the late pre‐Islamic era
Phytoliths from Archaeological Sites in the Tropical Forest of Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo
Phytoliths record late Quaternary vegetation at three archaeological sites in the Ituri rain forest. The oldest deposits, dated to ca. 19,000 to 10,000 14 C yr B.P., contain abundant phytoliths of grasses but also enough arboreal forms to show that the landscape was forested. The late-glacial forests may have had a more open canopy than today's. Younger phytolith assemblages show that the northeast Congo basin was densely forested throughout the …
Evidence for Banana Cultivation and Animal Husbandry During the First Millennium bc in the Forest of Southern Cameroon
First archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in central Africa during the third millennium before present
The initial history of bananas in Africa. A reply to Jan Vansina, Azania , 2003
Differentiating banana phytoliths: Wild and edible Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana
Differentiating the Volcaniform Phytoliths of Bananas: Musa acuminata
Banana phytoliths are considered a suitable tool in archaeology to track the history of the human populations involved in banana cultivation and dispersal throughout the tropical world. This study is confined to an initial investigation of the species Musa acuminata Colla and of its edible diploid and triploid derivatives. Slight morphological and/or morphometrical differences of the volcaniform phytoliths can be expected because of the very comp…
Why Bananas Matter: An introduction to the history of banana domestication
The multi-disciplinary contributions to this volume are all dedicated to the history of banana (Musa spp.) domestication and its significance. Wild bananas of the genus Musa have undergone a complex domestication history that has only been partially unravelled and remains to be fully elucidated. This volume is the first attempt to synthesise the latest 'state of the art' research across a range of disciplines (either in combination or separately)…
Special Issue: History of Banana Domestication
other
Studying urban stratigraphy: Dark Earth and a microstratified sequence on the site of the Court of Hoogstraeten (Brussels, Belgium). Integrating archaeopedology and phytolith analysis
A soil micromorphological study on the origins of the early medieval trading centre of Antwerp (Belgium)
A morphometric study of variance in articulated dendritic phytolith wave lobes within selected species of Triticeae and Aveneae
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Beyond redundancy and multiplicity. Integrating phytolith analysis and micromorphology to the study of Brussels Dark Earth
Phytoliths in archaeology: Recent advances
An integrated study of Dark Earth from the alluvial valley of the Senne river (Brussels, Belgium)
Medieval markets: A soil micromorphological and archaeobotanical study of the urban stratigraphy of Lier (Belgium)
Phytolith Analysis on Soil and Ceramic Thin Sections
Visibility, Preservation and Colour: A Descriptive System for the Study of Opal Phytoliths in (Archaeological) Soil and Sediment Thin Sections
Phytoliths are abundantly reported in (archaeological) soil thin sections. However, standard description systems are largely missing. The purpose of this paper is to present a descriptive system describing three aspects of phytoliths in soil thin sections: visibility, preservation and colour (VPC). The visibility expresses to which extent the phytoliths are masked or surrounded by fine material. The preservation is an indicator for the physico-ch…
International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature (ICPN) 2.0
BACKGROUND: Opal phytoliths (microscopic silica bodies produced in and between the cells of many plants) are a very resilient, often preserved type of plant microfossil. With the exponentially growing number of phytolith studies, standardization of phytolith morphotype names and description is essential. As a first effort in standardization, the International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature 1.0 was published by the ICPN Working Group in Annals of…
An integrated micromorphological and phytolith study of urban soils and sediments from the Gallo‐Roman town Atuatuca Tungrorum, Belgium
Tongeren is the only Roman administrative capital within the borders of present‐day Belgium. It developed in the first century A.D. and became an important civitas . Many excavations in the center of town have uncovered complex stratigraphic sequences, including dark earths, dating to Roman as well as early medieval times. Their interpretation, based on traditional archaeological methods, often remains problematic. A large‐scale excavation at Ver…
Phytolith Analysis on Soil and Ceramic Thin Sections
Nkang: Early Evidence for Banana Cultivation on the African Continent
Auto-Fluorescent Phytoliths: A New Method for Detecting Heating and Fire
A range of methods have been applied to identify whether phytoliths have been heated or fired: morphological alterations, changes in colour and opacity, refractive index and Raman spectroscopy. As not all phytoliths seem to be affected in the same way, these methods are obviously limited and none provide satisfactory results for sufficient discrimination between heated/burned and unheated/unburned phytoliths. We surveyed phytoliths in soil thin s…
Looking at Phytoliths in Archaeological Soil and Sediment Thin Sections
Traditionally, phytolith research focusses on the study of bulk samples collected during archaeological field campaigns. However, phytoliths are frequently reported by soil micromorphologists studying their archaeological soil and sediment thin sections. Within these thin sections all components, including the phytoliths, are captured in the position they had in the original soil and sediment profiles. This opens perspectives towards a better und…
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