Erik Kroon
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. E.J. Kroon MPhil
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1603
- e.j.kroon@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9019-2621
Erik Kroon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.
Office Days
Monday to Wednesday
Research
Erik Kroon (MPhil) is a PostDoc at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The foci of his research are ceramic technology, network analysis, and the emergence of Corded Ware during the Late Neolithic.
Curriculum vitae
Erik Kroon obtained his BA and RMA (cum laude) at Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology. His RMA thesis was awarded the Leiden University Thesis Prize in 2017. He has previously worked as Finds Advisor Prehistory in the project Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands at the Free University of Amsterdam and as a researcher in the project Economies of Destruction at Leiden University.
In 2018, Erik obtained a PhDs in the Humanities grant from NWO for his project 'What's in a pot?'. In this project, he investigated the interactions between indigenous Funnel Beaker West (TRB) groups and migrating Corded Ware groups in the Netherlands ca. 5000 years ago by looking at learning of ceramic production among these groups and knowledge transfer between them. His study combines network analysis, probability theory, and the chaîne opératoire-approach to ceramic technology.
Since spring 2023, Erik has been involved in the project 'The Talking Dead' as a PostDoc. He is collaborating with archaeologists and mathematicians to develop analytical tools which look at the spread of information about funerary practices among Corded Ware and Bell Beaker communities in the third millennium BCE.
Postdoc
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Europese Prehistorie
- Kroon E.J. (18 September 2024), Serial learners: interactions between Funnel Beaker West and Corded Ware communities in the Netherlands during the third millennium BCE from the perspective of ceramic technology (Dissertatie. World Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Leiden: Sidestone Press. Supervisor(s): Bourgeois Q.P.J. & Degryse P.A.I.H.
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. & Kroon E.J. (2023), Emergent properties of the corded ware culture: an information approach. In: Kristiansen K., Kroonen G. & Willerslev E. (Eds.), The Indo-European puzzle revisited: Integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 81-92.
- Kroon E.J., Huisman D.J., Bourgeois Q.P.J., Braekmans D.J.G. & Fokkens H. (2019), The introduction of Corded Ware Culture at a local level: An exploratory study of cultural change during the Late Neolithic of the Dutch West Coast through ceramic technology, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26: 101873.
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2017), The impact of male burials on the construction of Corded Ware identity: Reconstructing networks of information in the 3rd millennium BC [Networked Landscapes: Modelling supra-regional communities in the early 3rd Millennium BC] (translation: Bourgeois Q.P.J. & Kroon E.J.), PLoS ONE 12(10): 1-15.