Interdisciplinarity between Humanities and Science

Sjoerd Kluiving is an Associate Professor in Geoarchaeology and Anthropocene Sciences, with a special interest in Environmental Humanities. As a geologist and physical geographer involved in applying earth sciences to archaeology in interdisciplinary research and teaching, with emphasis on the Anthropocene. Project management in (field-based) evaluation of archaeological monuments, extensive teaching and research experience and initiator and project manager of involving cultural history in planning processes.Sjoerd leads the newly established Environmental Humanities Center at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA), uniting global geologists, archaeologists and historians. Sjoerd is (co-) supervising a growing body of PhD students in the field of landscape archaeology on the interface of archaeology, ecology and the earth sciences. Sjoerd has a special interest in accelerating the current societal transition and is project coordinator of TERRANOVA (EU- Horizon2020) steering 15 PhD candidates in a landscape-based response to one of the main challenges of our time.

• Interdisciplinary collaboration between the Humanities and Sciences. Fifteen years of Geo- and Bioarchaeology teaching and research at the Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamS.J. Kluiving, L.M. Kootker&R.A.E. Hermans The first cultural landscapes of Europe: A true enigmaJ.C.A Kolen& B. Oosterwijk The Wet Heart of the NetherlandsGuus J. Borger& Sjoerd J. Kluiving Bones, teeth and invisible tracers. The current state of human bioarchaeological isotope geochemistry research in The NetherlandsL.M. Kootker& G.R. Davies On the ‘Quartzite Palaeolithic’ of the Naarder Eng (Huizen, the Netherlands). Relevance of a quartzite Neolithic axe findM. Langbroek Flooded, flattened and rebuilt archaeological sites. The case of strategic inundations during the Eighty Year’s War and how the archaeology developed after reclamation of the landscapeAdriaan de Kraker Many shades of brown. The condition and colour of Dutch archaeological textiles from dryland sandy soils, bogs, and the seaIneke Joosten& Maarten R. van Bomme Carbon and nitrogen isotopic variation in bone collagen within the human skeletonEls Dauven, Caroline Montrieux, Lauren O’Boyle, Peter Ditchfield& A. Mark Pollard Landscape and hominin habitation history of Flevoland (central Netherlands)D.F.A.M. van den Biggelaar, S.J. Kluiving, R.T. van Bal& C. Kasse Reconstructing palaeolandscapes in the eastern Rhine-Meuse delta (The Netherlands). Finding the starting point of the Linge channel?J.G.M. Verhagen, F. van Hemmen, J.R. Mulder& S.J. Kluiving Where bio- and geochemistry meet. Organic residues in copper corrosion products?K. Merriman, P. Ditchfield, D. Goodburn-Brown& A.M. Pollard