Marike van Aerde
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M.E.J.J. van Aerde
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1138
- m.e.j.j.van.aerde@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4471-3796
Dr Marike van Aerde is Assistant Professor in the World Archaeology department. Her research focuses on trade routes and exchange networks spanning from ancient Egypt to the 1st-millennium Indian Ocean. Her work includes ceramics and glass analyses, petroglyphic documentation, and methodological applications of Network Theory.
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News
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Grant enables archaeologists to study origins of museum artefacts -
Honours student makes documentary about Roman emperor in Katwijk -
‘You feel connected to the people of a bygone era’ -
Documentary From Aksum to India premiered during Week of Classics -
Rescuing ancient rock art in Pakistan with a Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Grant -
Moving to virtual collaboration with Marike van Aerde and her team: ‘There is real team spirit in our WhatsApp group’ -
Exploring the Faculty’s depots: ‘What's an Indian type of cooking pot doing in Jerusalem?’ -
Exploring 3D technology in pottery studies: ‘It is the future’ -
Archaeologist teaches Honours Course in The Hague: “The past is still alive.” -
Archaeology students explore visual culture with artworks
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Office days
Monday to Thursday
Research
Dr Marike van Aerde’s research focuses on ancient trade routes and exchange networks, spanning from ancient Egypt to the Indian Ocean area in the 1st millennium CE. Her work includes ceramics and glass analyses, petroglyphic documentation, distribution analyses, and methodological applications of Network Theory. Collaborating with international PhDs and MAs, her archaeological studies make use of scientific methods such as chemical analyses, GIS, database analyses and AI tools. Rooted in data analysis, the project asks wider questions of transregional exchange processes and how they evolved from the ancient world into the 1st millennium, as well as conceptual methodological questions concerning interdisciplinarity and epistemology.
Recent publications have included studies on Indian Ocean networks, ceramics analyses, Egyptian, Aksumite, and Indian ports, and the documentation and preservation of rock art from the Karakorum mountain range in the Himalayas. Marike appears regularly at international conferences, and actively pursues Open Access and international Heritage initiatives.
Curriculum vitae
In 2021, Marike was appointed Assistant Professor at Leiden University. In 2021, she set up heritage rescue fieldwork in the Karakorum mountains of Pakistan together with Prince Claus Grant awardee Abdul Ghani Khan. She is associated with the Honours Academy of Leiden University, where she explores how archaeological research can contribute to current societal themes and issues. She is a recurring lecturer for the Leiden Leadership Programme (LLP) since 2022. In 2019, she was awarded the LeidenGlobal seed grant for her research project, and between 2017-19 she held the Postdoctoral Byvanck Fellowship at Leiden University, which included an interdisciplinary teaching program.
Marike’s PhD (defended 2015) examined archaeological evidence of various exchange processes between Egypt and Rome. Fieldwork included campaigns at the Palatine Hill in Rome and material analyses in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR), and The British Museum in London. Aside from her archaeological studies, Marike also holds a (cum laude) MA degree in Classics from Radboud University (2005), and was awarded the Graduate School Research Scholarship from University College London (UCL, 2005-2008).
Assistant professor
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Historical Archaeology
- Zampierin D., Moita P., Lischi S., Aerde M.E.J.J. van, Barrulas P. & Mirão J. (2024), A multi-analytical approach applied to pottery from Oman as a key to understanding ancient Indian Ocean maritime trade, Archaeometry 66(5): 967-1015.
- Aerde M. van & Langbroek M. (2024), The World on a String. In: O'Farrell H. & Keurs P. ter (Eds.), Museums, Collections and Society: Yearbook 2023. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Aerde M. van (2024) Gandharan art and the classical world: review and new perspectives . Review of: Stewart P. (2024), Gandharan art and the classical world: a short introduction. Oxford: Archaeopress. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 10(37).
- Amarasinghe P., Kalaycı T. & Aerde M. van (2023), All roads lead to Beijing: politics, power, and profits of the roads. In: Kalayci T. (Ed.), Archaeologies of roads. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at The University of North Dakota. 369-392.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2023), Gandhara in context: boeddhistische stoepareliefs als klassieke kunst?, Hermeneus 95(4): 29-35.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van & Botan S.A. (2023), Trade dynamics in East Africa: the continuation of ancient port settlements in the first millennium AD, Talanta: Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society 54: 97-116.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2022), Van Hellas tot de Himalaya: de archeologie van culturele diversiteit. In: Huig E., Kuin I.N.I. & Liebregts M. (Eds.), De huid van Cleopatra: etniciteit en diversiteit in oudheidstudies. Zenobia no. 9. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren. 186-197.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2022) Crossing oceans: interdisciplinary research and ancient trade routes. Review of: De Romanis F. (2020), The Indo-Roman pepper trade and the Muziris papyrus. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Journal of Roman Archaeology .
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van & Khan A.G. (2021), Carvings & community: inclusive heritage solutions for for protecting ancient Karakorum petroglyphs under threat, Journal of Archaeohistorical Studies 1(2): 77-90 (5).
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van, Mohns A.D.L. & Khan A.G. (2020), Buddha on the Rocks, Gandharan Connections through the Karakorum Mountains. In: Rienjang W. & Stewart P. (Eds.), The Global Connections of Gandharan Art, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project, University of Oxford, 18th-19th March 2019. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.. 105-134.
- Aerde M. van & Zampierin D. (2020), A lot of pepper and a little garum: an archaeological comparison of the Roman presence at Berenike and Arikamedu, Ancient West & East 19: 145 - 166.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2019), Egypt and the Augustan cultural revolution: an interpretative archaeological overview. BABESCH Supplements no. 38. Leuven: Peeters Publishers.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2019), Routes Beyond Gandhara: Buddhist Rock Carvings in the Context of the Early Silk Roads. In: Yang L.E., Bork H.-R., Fang X. & Mischke S. (Eds.), Socio-Environmental Dynamics Along the Historical Silk Road. Kiel: Springer Open. 455-480.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2018), Revisiting Taxila: A new approach to the Greco-Buddhist archaeological record, Ancient West & East 2018(17): 203-229.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2018), Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution: an interpretative archaeological overview. BABESCH.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2018), Heracles in Gandhara? A study of architectural decoration of early Buddhist stupas, European Architectural History Network Newsletter 6(1): .
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2017), Buddhism in Gandhara and beyond: cultural interaction between ancient East and West, Aspects of globalisation. Mobility, exchange and the development of multi-cultural states : 40-45.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (23 April 2015), Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution : an interpretative archaeological overview (Dissertatie, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Sojc N., Versluys M.J.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2015), Gandhara als cultureel kruispunt: interactie tussen de mediterrane wereld en de Indusvallei, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 27(54): 41-47.
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2014), Augustus en Egypte: Rome als wereldstad, Archivo Español de Arte 86(2): 105-108.
- Müskens S., Versluys M.J., Leemreize M., Mol E. & Aerde M. van (2014), L’Egitto a Roma, Forma Urbis 9(9): 17-19.
- Müskens S.W.G., Leemreize M.E.C., Mol E.M., Aerde M.E.J.J. van & Versluys M.J. (2014), Egypt in the Roman world. By conquering the world, Rome itself became the world. Archaeology in Transition Symposium, Leiden. 25 September 2014 - 26 September 2014. [conference poster].
- Aerde M.E.J.J. van (2013), Concepts of Egypt in Augustan Rome: Two case studies of cameo glass from The British Museum, British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 2013(20): 1-23.