Landscape Use and Mobility In EuRopE - Bridging the gap between cremation and inhumation

Project Information

LUMIERE

Grant agreement ID: 948913

DOI

10.3030/948913

Project closed

EC signature date 7 September 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 January 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 997 812,00

EU contribution

€ 1 997 812,00

Coordinated by

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
Belgium

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (29)

Colonia Iulia Emona at the crossroads in the South-Eastern Alpine region during the late Roman period – An isotope perspective

Author(s): Tamara Leskovar, Christophe Snoeck, Matija Črešnar, Marta Hlad, Carina T. Gerritzen, Hannah F. James, Rachèl Spros, Steven Goderis, Andrej Gaspari
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 65, 2025, Page(s) 105218, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105218

Optimizing Zr-doped MC-ICP-MS sample-standard bracketing to simultaneously determine 87Sr/86Sr and δ88Sr for high sample-throughput

Author(s): Carina T. Gerritzen, Steven Goderis, Hannah F. James, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, Issue 217, 2024, Page(s) 106955, ISSN 0584-8547
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2024.106955

Over the river and into the hills: locals and non-locals at Inzersdorf, a late Bronze Age cemetery in the Traisen Valley (Austria)

Author(s): Michaela Fritzl, Lukas Waltenberger, Hannah F. James, Christophe Snoeck, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02054-w

Reconstructing Life Histories: New Insights Into Cremation Practices, Mobility, and Food Consumption Patterns Through Isotope and Infrared Analyses of Petrous Parts and Teeth

Author(s): Anneminne Frère, Tessi Löffelmann, Barbara Veselka, Elisavet Stamataki, Amanda Sengeløv, Hannah F. James, Guy de Mulder, Britt Claes, Free de Backer, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Issue 187, 2025, ISSN 2692-7691
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70058

Capturing the fusion of two ancestries and kinship structures in Merovingian Flanders

Author(s): Stefania Sasso, Lehti Saag, Rachèl Spros, Owyn Beneker, Ludovica Molinaro, Simone A. Biagini, Alexander Lehouck, Katrien Van De Vijver, Ruoyun Hui, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Alena Kushniarevich, Helja Kabral, Ene Metspalu, Meriam Guellil, Muhammad Q. A. Ali, Jan Geypen, Maxim Hoebreckx, Birgit Berk, Natasja De Winter, Petra Driesen, April Pijpelink, Philip Van Damme, Christiana L. Scheib, Ewoud Desch
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2406734121

Hidden transitions. New insights into changing social dynamics between the Bronze and Iron Age in the cemetery of Destelbergen (Belgium)

Author(s): Sarah Dalle; Giacomo Capuzzo; Marta Hlad; Barbara Veselka; Rica Annaert; Mathieu Boudin; Charlotte Sabaux; Kevin Salesse; Amanda Sengeløv; Elisavet Stamataki; Martine Vercauteren; Eugène Warmenbol; Christophe Snoeck; Guy De Mulder
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 49, 2023, Page(s) 103979, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103979

A multi-proxy approach to reconstruct chronology, human mobility, and funerary practices at the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age urnfield of San Valentino (San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy)

Author(s): Giacomo Capuzzo, Elisavet Stamataki, Michael Allen Beck De Lotto, Silvia Pettarin, Philippe Claeys, Nadine Mattielli, Giovanni Tasca, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0309649, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309649

Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain

Author(s): Jacob I. Griffith, Hannah F. James, Javier Ordoño, Teresa Fernández-Crespo, Carina T. Gerritzen, Christina Cheung, Rachèl Spros, Philippe Claeys, Steven Goderis, Barbara Veselka, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0316387, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316387

Lively landscapes: Sex- and age-related differences in diet and land use characterising a Late Bronze-Early Iron Age community from Tilburg, the Netherlands

Author(s): Barbara Veselka, Tessi Löffelmann, Hannah F. James, Joris Brattinga, Arjan Louwen, Guy De Mulder, Lucas Meurkens, Charlotte Sabaux, Guido van den Eynde, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 62, 2025, Page(s) 105054, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105054

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

Author(s): Rachèl Spros, Christophe Snoeck, Tessi Löffelmann, Elisavet Stamataki, Veronica Jackson, Barbara Veselka, Hannah F. James, Amanda Sengeløv, Kristof Haneca, Koen De Groote, Anton Ervynck, Steven Provyn, Thyl Snoeck, Philippe Claeys, Bart Lambert
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02169-8

More than urns: A multi-method pipeline for analyzing cremation burials

Author(s): Lukas Waltenberger, Marjolein D. Bosch, Michaela Fritzl, André Gahleitner, Christoph Kurzmann, Maximilian Piniel, Roderick B. Salisbury, Ladislav Strnad, Hannah Skerjanz, Domnika Verdianu, Christophe Snoeck, Fabian Kanz, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 18, 2023, Page(s) e0289140, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289140

Tracing chalcolithic population mobility using strontium isotopes and proteomics at Gumelnița site, Romania

Author(s): Aurélien Tafani, Enrico Greco, Robert H. Tykot, Pierluigi Barbieri, Marco Gaspari, Caterina Gabriele, Andreea Toma, Mihaela Culea, Bogdan Manea, Adelina Darie, Vasile Opriș, Theodor Ignat, Gabriel Vasile, Adrian Bălășescu, Valentin Radu, Gabriel Popescu, Cristina Covătaru, Elia Marin, Kévin Salesse, Hannah F. James, Christophe Snoeck, Cătălin Lazăr
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-05671-0

Funerary practices of cremation at the megalithic societies of South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Milanes

Author(s): Paula Becerra Fuello, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Miriam Vílchez Suárez, Sonia Robles Carrasco, Lara Milesi García, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Christophe Snoeck, Elisavet Stamataki, Javier Lescure, Margarita Sánchez Romero
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0330771, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0330771

The Secrets in our Teeth

Author(s): Hannah F. James; Jacob I. Griffith; Kelsie Long; Christina Cheung; Malte Willmes
Published in: Frontiers for Young Minds, Issue 749555, 2022, ISSN 2296-6846
Publisher: Lausanne: Frontiers Media S.A., 2013-
DOI: 10.3389/frym.2022.749555

Reconstruction of the lifeways of Central European Late Bronze Age communities using ancient DNA, isotope and osteoarchaeological analyses

Author(s): Eleftheria Orfanou, Ayshin Ghalichi, Adam B. Rohrlach, Enrico Paust, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Michal Ernée, Mirosław Furmanek, Agata Hałuszko, Taylor Hermes, Marie Himmel, Jana Ilgner, Johannes Krause, Mario Küßner, Thiseas Christos Lamnidis, Mary Lucas, Drahomíra Adámková Malyková, Harald Meller, Gunnar U. Neumann, Luka Papac, Sandra Penske, Maike Salinger, Sarah A. Schrader, Torsten Sch
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69895-y

Land management during the Bronze Age in the Upper Seine Valley (France): Isotopic evidence for selective land-use

Author(s): Solène Chevallier, Hannah F. James, Rebecca Peake, Christophe Snoeck, Estelle Herrscher
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 186, 2026, Page(s) 106474, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2026.106474

Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation

Author(s): Marta Hlad, Tessi Löffelmann, Jacob I. Griffith, Hannah F. James, Martine Vercauteren, Christophe Snoeck, Barbara Veselka
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0310380, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310380

New rites, local lives: Strontium isotope analysis of cremated human remains from the Late Iron Age cemetery at Westhampnett, West Sussex, UK

Author(s): Madeleine Bleasdale, Ian Armit, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Primeau, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 62, 2025, Page(s) 105037, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105037

Strontium isotope analyses of archaeological cremated remains – new data and perspectives

Author(s): Christophe Snoeck, Christina Cheung, Jacob I. Griffith, Hannah F. James, Kevin Salesse
Published in: Data in Brief, 2022, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108115

Strontium isotopes and concentrations in cremated bones suggest an increased salt consumption in Gallo-Roman diet

Author(s): Dalle, Sarah; Snoeck, Christophe; Sengelov, Amanda; Salesse, Kevin; Hlad, Marta; Annaert, Rica; Boonants, Tom; Boudin, Mathieu; Capuzzo, Giacomo; Gerritzen, Carina T.; Goderis, Steven; Sabaux, Charlotte; Stamataki, Elisavet; Vercauteren, Martine; Veselka, Barbara; Warmenbol, Eugène; De Mulder, Guy
Published in: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12880-4

Diet, mobility, and life histories during the early medieval period at San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy

Author(s): Giacomo Capuzzo, Elena Fiorin, Michael Allen Beck De Lotto, Andrea Betto, Giovanni Tasca, Serena Di Tonto, Paolo Forlin, Christophe Snoeck, Christina Cheung
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 66, 2026, Page(s) 105328, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105328

Developing incremental isotope sampling methods for the dental enamel of human canines and molars

Author(s): Jacob I. Griffith, Hannah F. James, Barbara Veselka, Rick J. Schulting, Christina Cheung, Lisette M. Kootker, Matija Črešnar, Tamara Leskovar, Hai-Yen Tran, Philippe Claeys, Hugues Gregoir, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: Forensic Chemistry, Issue 47, 2026, Page(s) 100720, ISSN 2468-1709
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.forc.2025.100720

Comparison of methodological strategies to determine Sr concentrations in Ca-rich matrices

Author(s): Tom Boonants, Christophe Snoeck, Carina T. Gerritzen, Matija Črešnar, Tamara Leskovar, Petra Stipančić, Philippe Claeys, Steven Goderis
Published in: Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, Issue 232, 2025, Page(s) 107259, ISSN 0584-8547
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2025.107259

From plants to patterns: Constructing a comprehensive online strontium isoscape for Belgium (IsoBel) using high density grid mapping

Author(s): Amanda Sengeløv, Giacomo Capuzzo, Sarah Dalle, Hannah F. James, Charlotte Sabaux, Elisavet Stamataki, Marta Hlad, Carina T. Gerritzen, Emma M. Legrand, Barbara Veselka, Guy De Mulder, Rica Annaert, Mathieu Boudin, Kevin Salesse, Eugène Warmenbol, Nadine Mattielli, Christophe Snoeck, Martine Vercauteren
Published in: Geoderma, Issue 453, 2025, Page(s) 117123, ISSN 0016-7061
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.117123

Strontium isotopes and cremation: Investigating mobility patterns in the Roman city of Mutina (north-eastern Italy)

Author(s): Francesca Seghi, Federico Lugli, Hannah F. James, Tessi Löffelmann, Elena Armaroli, Antonino Vazzana, Anna Cipriani, Christophe Snoeck, Stefano Benazzi
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 58, 2024, Page(s) 104728, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104728

Environmental sampling to capture bioavailable strontium isotope distributions on Corsica

Author(s): Hannah F. James, Malte Willmes, Mélanie Fabre, Patrice Courtaud, Kévin Rey, Marie Balasse, Rainer Grün, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: Applied Geochemistry, Issue 190, 2025, Page(s) 106511, ISSN 0883-2927
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2025.106511

Incremental enamel and dentine isotopic data of faunal remains from the United Kingdom

Author(s): Jacob I. Griffith; Hannah F. James; Christina Cheung; Christophe Snoeck
Published in: Data in Brief, Issue 23523409, 2022, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108116

Understanding intra-individual isotopic variability in modern cremated human remains for forensic and archaeological studies

Author(s): Christophe Snoeck, Melanie M. Beasley, Dawnie Wolfe Steadman
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0320396, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0320396

Strontium isotopes and concentrations in bioarchaeology – connecting diet and mobility

Author(s): Christophe Snoeck, Janet Montgomery
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 189, 2026, Page(s) 106528, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2026.106528