The LOCO project – The Low Countries, Crossroads of Europe from the Neolithic to the Late Middle Ages – is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity project between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the KU Leuven (KUL) and Ghent University (UGent). It brings together experts from different fields: C. Snoeck, B. Lambert, B. Veselka, Ph. Claeys (VUB), G. De Mulder, F. Buylaert, I. De Groote, W. De Clercq, K. Deforce (UGent), P. Degryse and M. Fantoli (KUL). LOCO aims to document the driving forces behind the movement of materials, people, and ideas in and out of the Low Countries, in diachronic way from the Neolithic into the Late Middle Ages. Combining the strengths of archaeological, historical, anthropological, literary, and geochemical approaches, the LOCO project develops an holistic, complementary and adaptable methodological framework applied across a 7,000-year period, covering both prehistoric and historic times. Situated at the crossroads of human, material, and intellectual exchanges between Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern Europe, the Low Countries provide an ideal case study to test this framework.
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