Mark Driessen
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr.ir. M.J. Driessen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1756
- m.j.driessen@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3378-9418
Mark Driessen is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.
More information about Mark Driessen
News
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Archaeological Project Sheds Light on Ancient Water Management in Udhruh -
Highlighting Dutch-Jordanian archaeological cooperation in Udhruh -
Leiden archaeologists held an open day in Oss to celebrate 50 years of collaboration -
Udhruh archaeological project on TV in Jordan
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Investigating ancient irrigation tunnels with a remote controlled car
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Archaeologists of the future dig for traces of the past -
Field School 2023: We are back in Oss! -
Conservation of Qasr Bshir featured as a cover story in Current World Archaeology -
Mark Driessen's Jordan fieldwork features in Photo Exhibition -
Archaeologist Mark Driessen’s book and project in royal spotlights -
Throwback to the Archaeological Field School of 2022: ‘Excavating is very rewarding’ -
Leiden Archaeology Field School 2022 has begun in Oss -
Archaeologists find Roman camp near Ermelo -
A Roman camp or not? How our archaeologists found the answer -
Archaeology students vlog at Castellum Hoge Woerd -
Archaeologists in action: stories from the field -
Archaeologists in action: stories from the field
Office days
No fixed dates.
Research
As from 2011 Mark started a joint venture project with dr. Fawzi Abudanah of the Al Hussein Bin Talal University (Petra/Wadi Musa, Jordan) concerning the site of Udhruh. This town – 12 km east of the rose-red city of Petra – housed an important Nabataean settlement, is best known for the presence of a Roman legionary fortress and became a major regional centre in Byzantine and Islamic times. The interdisciplinary Udhruh Archaeological Project started with a field-survey program, small-scale excavations and diverse GIS-related and subsurface-detection techniques of a 48km² research area in the region around this town. A massive transformation could be observed in the organisation of water resources, agricultural systems and settlement patterns as well as communication networks which allowed for an active exploitation of the Udhruh region and turning parts of the steppe into green oases. We can conclude that the research area around the town of Udhruh is one of the most complete and best preserved field ‘laboratories’ to study the long-term development of innovative water management and agricultural systems in Southern Jordan throughout the Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic periods (2nd century BCE – 10th century CE). For the coming years this research program will focus on the diachronic reconstruction of the antique agro-hydrological techniques which were employed to cultivate this (semi-)arid landscape and the societal conditions that contextualised them. An international and interdisciplinary research team will examine, in close cooperation with the local communities, what the key to this water management and agricultural success was in ancient times. Next to that do we aim that this gained knowledge can be used for future regional agricultural applications.
Teaching activities
My teaching relates to general classes (theory and history of archaeology), practical skills (fieldwork and material culture practicals) and thematic-regional courses (Provincial Roman Archaeology of Northwest Europe and the Middle East). I teach classes from the BA1 up to the RMA and supervise Bachelor and Master theses. I have teaching experience at the University of Leiden, University of Amsterdam, Free University (Amsterdam) and Campus The Hague and enjoy training students on field skills in Jordan.
Curriculum vitae
Mark graduated at Wageningen University (tropical forestry and agriculture) and worked for many years in Africa and South America. After returning to The Netherlands he started working as a field archaeologist and studied Provincial Roman Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD on the topography, settlement continuity and monumentality of Roman Nijmegen at the same university. He excavated and worked on the Roman harbour of Voorburg-Arentsburg (Forum Hadriani). Since 2011 he is Assistant Professor in Provincial Roman Archaeology at Leiden University and director of the Udhruh Archaeological Project (Jordan).
Assistant professor
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Historical Archaeology
- Driessen M.J. & Verschoof-van der Vaart W. (2024), A new Roman camp north of the Lower German Limes at Ermelo (the Netherlands). Enckevort H. van Driessen M. Graafstal E. Hazenberg T Ivleva T. Driel-Murray C. van (Ed.), Supplying the Roman Empire. : Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 4. . Leiden: Sidestone Press. 173-180.
- Enckevort H van Driessen M. Graafstal E. Hazenberg T. Ivleva T. Driel-Murray C. van (Ed.) (2024), Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers. : Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1 no. 1. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Enckevort H. van Driessen M. Graafstal E. Hazenberg T. Ivleva T. Driel-Murray C. van (Ed.) (2024), Strategy and Structures along the Roman Frontier. : Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 2 no. 2. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Enckevort H. van Driessen M. Graafstal E. Hazenberg T. Ivleva T. Driel-Murray C. van (Ed.) (2024), Living and dying on the Roman Frontier and beyond. : Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 3 no. 3. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Enckevort H. van Driessen M. Graafstal E. Hazenberg T. Ivleva T. Driel-Murray C. van (Ed.) (2024), Supplying the Roman Empire : Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 4 no. 4. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Driessen M. Verschoof - van de Vaart W. (2024), 'Het ‘nieuwe’ Romeins kamp van Ermelo-Indianenbos: Een marskamp ten noorden van de limes', Archeologie in Nederland 18-1: 22-29.
- Rawashdeh S.', Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (8 October 2024), Highlighting Dutch-Jordanian archaeological cooperation in Udhruh. The Jordan Times.
- Rawashdeh S., Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (19 October 2024), Archaeological Project Sheds Light on Ancient Water Management in Udhruh. The Jordan Times.
- Rawashdeh S., Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (27 October 2024), Insights on enduring legacy of Udhruh’s agro-hydrological systems.
- Rawashdeh S., Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (6 November 2024), Dutch team reveals network of watchtowers around Udhruh Fortress. The Jordan Times.
- Dabbas D., Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2024), Helwa ya Donya - Udhruh documentary. [film].
- Breeze D., Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F (2023), Qasr Bshir: conserving a special Roman Fort, Current World Archaeology (118): .
- Breeze D. Driessen M. Abudanah F. (2023), Qasr Bshir: Erhalt eines einzigartigen römischen Kastells, Limes 17(2): 20-25.
- Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2023), ‘Power Over’ or ‘Power With’? : Monumentality in the Desert: the Roman legionary fortress of Udhruḥ (Jordan). Golubović S. (Ed.), LIMES XXIIII: Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, 2nd − 9th September 2018 Viminacium − Belgrade, Serbia . 24th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 2 September 2018 - 9 September 2018. Belgrade: Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade. 163-178.
- Breeze D.J., Abudanah F., Braund D., Driessen M.J., James S., Konrad M. & Polak M. (2022), Frontiers of the Roman Empire: the Eastern frontiers. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Breeze D.J., Abudanah F., Driessen M., James S., Konrad M. & Polak M. (2022), تخوم الامبراطوریة الرومانیة. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Heeren S & Driessen M.J. (2022), Roman offensive planning: shaping the Lower Rhine landscape. In: Henig M. & Lundock J. (Eds.), Water in the Roman world: engineering, trade, religion and daily life no. 91. Oxford: Archaeopress. 26-38.
- Driessen M.J. (2022), Living on the edge of the desert: guest curator photo exhibition Rijksmuseum van Oudheden . Leiden, (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden). [other].
- Driessen M.J., Abudanah F. & Breeze D. (29 September 2022), Jordan Times: Prince Hassan attends 'Frontiers of the Roman Empire' book launch. The Jordan Times.
- Velasco-Sanchez A., Driessen M.J., Abudanah F., Nobels P.R., Comans R.N.J. & Hoosbeek M.R. (2021), Soil chemical changes in ancient irrigated fields of Udhruḥ, southern Jordan, Geoarchaeology : .
- Driessen M.J. (2020), Provenance analysis of marble ecclesiastical elements from the extra-mural Byzantine Church of Udhruh (South Jordan) [Christian Perseverance in the Southern Levant: religious transformations in Udhruh (Jordan)] (translation: Al-Bashaireh K., Abudanah F. & Driessen M.J.), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12: 26.
- Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2019), The Udhruḥ Intervisibility: Antique Communication Networks in the Hinterland of Petra. In: , Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 13. Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 453-474.
- Bloemers J.H.F., Aarts J.G., Driessen M.J., Lauwerier R.C.G.M. & Robeerst J.M.M. (2018), Verbindung (Artikulation) zwischen zentralem Ort und ländlicher Besiedlung in der Germania inferior: eine Herausforderung für die Forschung. In: Aufleger M. Tutlies P. (Ed.), Das Ganze ist mehr als die Summe seiner Teile: Festschrift für Jürgen Kunow anlässlich seines Eintritts in den Ruhestand. Materialien zur Bodendenkmalpflege im Rheinland no. 27. Bonn: LVR-Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege im Rheinland. 283-288.
- Rawashdeh S., Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (11 February 2018), Dutch scholar seeks to unravel ‘almost forgotten’ site of Udhruh. The Jordan Times.
- Driessen M.J. (2018), The logistic function of the Rhine-Meuse delta in the Roman period: the harbour town of Voorburg-Arentsburg as a case-study. In: Carnap-Bornheim C. von, Daim F., Ettel P. & Warnke U. (Eds.), Harbours as objects of interdisciplinary research – Archaeology + History + Geoscience no. 34. Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. 437-458.
- Ivleva T., Bruin J. de & Driessen M.J. (Eds.) (2018), Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2018), The Udhruh region: A green desert in the hinterland of ancient Petra. In: Zhuang Y. & Altaweel M. (Eds.), Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present. London: UCL Press. 127-156.
- Driessen M.J. (2018), Nice Meating: The canabae legionis livestock market at Nijmegen revisited. In: Ivleva T., Bruin J. de & Driessen M.J. (Eds.), Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 121-132.
- Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2018), A new early Christian inscription from the church of Udhruh (South Jordan). In: Kars M., Oosten R. van, Roxburgh M.A. & Verhoeven A. (Eds.), Rural riches & royal rags? Studies on medieval and modern archaeology, presented to Frans Theuws. Zwolle: SPA Uitgevers. 184-188.
- Driessen M.J. (2017), Trade-routes through the steppe, Aspects of globalisation. Mobility, exchange and the development of multi-cultural states : 36-39.
- Driessen M.J. (2017), The metalwork. In: Vos W.K., Bakels C.C. & Goossens T.A. (Eds.), The Roman villa at Maasbracht. The archaeology and history of a Roman settlement on the banks of the river Meuse (Province of Limburg, The Netherlands). In memory of Willem J.H. Willems. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 46. Leiden: Leiden University. 157-179.
- Lith S.E.M. van & Driessen M.J. (2017), Glass and jet. In: Vos W.K., Bakels C.C. & Goossens T.A. (Eds.), The Roman villa at Maasbracht. The archaeology and history of a Roman settlement on the banks of the river Meuse (Province of Limburg, The Netherlands). In memory of Willem J.H. Willems. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 46. Leiden: Leiden University. 151-155.
- Driessen M.J. (2017), Voorburg-Arentsburg: a Roman harbour with a British connection in the hinterland of the Limes. Hodgson N., Bidwell P. & Schachtmann J. (Eds.), Roman frontier studies 2009: proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Limes Congress) held at Newcastle upon Tyne in August 2009. International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Limes Congress) 17 August 2009 - 23 August 2009. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology no. 25. Oxford: Archaeopress. 579-585.
- Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2016), Udhruh Archaeological Project, American Journal of Archaeology 120(4): 667-669.
- Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2015), The Udhruh Archaeological Project – the 2011-2012 Field Survey. Vagalinski L. & Sharankov N. (Eds.), Limes XXII Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Ruse, Bulgaria, September 2012. the 22nd International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies no. Bulletin of the National Archaeological Institute. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 297-306.
- Driessen M.J. (2015) Review of Die Canabae von Carnuntum. Review of: Doneus M., Gugl C. & Doneus N. (2013), Die Canabae von Carnuntum. Eine Modellstudie der Erforschung römischer Lagervorstädte. Von der Luftbildprospektion zur siedlungsarchäologischen Synthese.. Der Römische Limes in Österreich no. 47. Wien: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Bonner Jahrbücher 214: 393-394.
- Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (2014), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
- Driessen M.J. & Enckevort H. van (2014), Stedelijke ontwikkeling en landelijke villa’s in de Lage Landen. In: Hupperetz W., Kaper O.E., Naerebout F. & Versluys M.J. (Eds.), Van Rome naar Romeins. Amsterdam: W-Books. 129-133.
- Driessen M.J. & Heiden M. van der (2014), Stratigrafie, chronologie en fasering . In: Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (Eds.), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 65-75.
- Driessen M.J. (2014), De levensgeschiedenis van de Romeinse geul/haven van Voorburg-Arentsburg. In: Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (Eds.), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas. no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 141-181.
- Driessen M.J. (2014), Sporen en structuren uit de Romeinse tijd. In: Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (Eds.), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 97-131.
- Driessen M.J. (2014), The History of the Roman River Channel of Voorburg-Arentsburg. In: Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (Eds.), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 199-225.
- Driessen M.J. & Dijkstra M. (2014), Sporen, structuren en aardewerk uit de Middeleeuwen en de Nieuwe Tijd. In: Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (Eds.), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 133-147.
- Driessen M.J. (2014), De levensgeschiedenis van het Romeinse aardewerk uit Voorburg-Arentsburg. In: Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (Eds.), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 181-197.
- Driessen M.J. (2014), Versierde terra sigillata. In: Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (Eds.), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 473-484; 897-955.
- Driessen M.J. & Buikema T. (2014), Sporen en structuren uit de (Romeinse) IJzertijd. In: Driessen M.J. & Besselsen E. (Eds.), Voorburg-Arentsburg: Een Romeinse handelsstad tussen Rijn en Maas no. Themata. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 91-95.
- Driessen M.J. (2014), The Roman Harbours of Velsen and Voorburg-Arentsburg (NL). In: Kennecke H. (Ed.), Der Rhein als europäische Verkehrsachse – Die Römerzeit no. Bonner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie. Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. 209-228.
- Domínguez Delmás M., Driessen M.J., García-González I., Helmond N. van & Jansma E. (2014), Long-distance oak supply in mid-2nd century AD revealed: the case of a Roman harbour (Voorburg-Arentsburg) in the Netherlands, Journal of Archaeological Science 41: 642-654.
- Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2014), Udhruh Archaeological Project, American Journal of Archaeology 118(4): 670-671.
- Driessen M.J. (2014), Udhruh Archaeological Project (Guest lecture for Friends of RMO; Petra Exhibition). [lecture].
- Driessen M.J. & Abudanah F. (2013), The Udhruh lines of sight: connectivity in the hinterland of Petra, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 50: 45-52.
- Driessen M.J. (2013), Udhruh Archaeological Project: cooperation with local communities (Alphen a/d Rijn). [lecture].
- Driessen M.J. (2013), PASTA course Romeins aardewerk (Amsterdam). [lecture].
- Driessen M.J. (2013), Graven naar sponsors (Crowdfunding Udhruh Archaeological Project), Elsevier : 62-63.
- Driessen M.J. (24 September 2013), Duits hout ingevoerd voor Romeinse haven bij Voorburg. NRC Handelsblad.
- Driessen M.J. (2012), Wat is Archeologie? (Arnhemse Montessori School Groups 6-8). [lecture].
- Driessen M.J. (2012), Archeologie in Nederland en Jordanië. (Arnhemse Montessori School Groups 6-8). [lecture].
- Driessen M.J. (2011), Noviomagus: Mijn eigen Nijmegen, Jaarboek Numaga 2011: 20-37.
- Meijer F., Driessen M. & Beek R. van (2010), Sail Rome!: de koopvaardij in de Romeinse tijd. Amsterdam: Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep.
- Driessen M.J. (2010), De versierde terra sigillata. In: Enckevort H. van & Heirbaut E.N.A (Eds.), Terra sigillata uit Oppidum Batavorum. Opgravingen op de St. Josephhof in Nijmegen 3 no. Archeologische Berichten Nijmegen. Nijmegen: Gemeente Nijmegen, Bureau Archeologie en Monumenten. 7-46.
- Driessen M., Heeren S., Hendriks J., Kemmers F. & Visser R. (2009), TRAC 2008: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Amsterdam 2008. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Driessen M.J. (2009), The early Flavian timber castra and the Flavian-Trajanic stone legionary fortress at Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Morillo Á., Hanel N. & Martín E. (Eds.), Limes XX. XXth International congress of Roman frontier studies. XXth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies no. Anejos de Gladius. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Ediciones Polifemo. 1245-1256.
- Driessen M.J. (2007), Bouwen om te blijven: de topografie, bewoningscontinuïteit en monumentaliteit van Romeins Nijmegen (dissertatie Universiteit van Amsterdam) no. Rapportage Archaeologische Monumentenzorg. Amersfoort: Rijksdienst voor Archeologie, Cultuurlandschap en Monumenten.
- Driessen M.J. (2005), Monumentality for Roman Nijmegen. Visy Zs. (Ed.), Limes XIX. Proceedings of the XIXth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Pecs, Hungary (September 2004). . Pécs: University of Pécs. 315-322.
- Driessen M.J. (2005), Unifying aspects of Roman fortresses. Bruhn J., Croxford B. & Grigoropoulos D. (Eds.), TRAC 2004: Proceedings of the fourteenth annual theoretical Roman archaeology conference held in Durham (26-27 March 2004). Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 157-162.
- Bloemers J.H.F. & Driessen M.J. (2004), Workshop Central places in Roman Lower Germany: the Army, the Government and the Tribes. [other].
- Driessen M.J. (2004), Verenigende Aspecten van Romeinse Forten. [other].
- Driessen M.J. (2004), Unifying Aspects of Roman Fortresses. [other].
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