Nathalie Brusgaard
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. N.Ø. Brusgaard
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6048
- n.o.brusgaard@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1085-7844
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Nathalie Brusgaard is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.
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Office days
Monday to Thursday
Research
Nathalie Brusgaard is Assistant Professor in European Prehistory. Nathalie is a specialist in human-animal relationships in prehistory. Her research focuses on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition and how the emergence of farming impacted the relationship between humans and animals. Her interests include both animal domestication and wild fauna. Nathalie also has a broad interest in the development of multispecies relationships over time in prehistory, and her current projects include research on beavers, elk, and cattle.
Nathalie’s work is interdisciplinary in nature, sitting at the intersection of archaeology, human-animal studies, and ecology. Her research employs diverse methods and sources, including zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, and iconography. Nathalie is a passionate science communicator, and her research endeavours to use deep-time perspectives on the human-animal relationship to inform current issues such as biodiversity loss and rewilding. She is an editor for the popular science magazine Zoogdier (‘Mammal’).
Nathalie is also a keen fieldwork archaeologist with experience in northern Europe, the Middle East, and the US. She is currently the Associate Director and zooarchaeologist of the Girdi Matrab Archaeological Project in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Teaching activities
Nathalie teaches courses on Dutch and European prehistory at undergraduate and graduate levels and provides specialist lectures in zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis. Nathalie is open to supervision and internships on any of the many topics she's interested in.
Curriculum vitae
Nathalie Brusgaard has previously held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship at Aarhus University (Denmark) for her project ‘When Keystone Species Converge’, a transdisciplinary study of human-beaver interactions in Atlantic northwest Europe. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in a project on the emergency of cattle and pig husbandry in the Netherlands. Nathalie obtained her PhD from Leiden University (2019) for her study of nomadic pastoralist rock art and camel symbolism in Jordan and her MA from Leiden University (2019, summa cum laude) for her study of the social significance of cattle in the European Bronze Age. Nathalie has also worked at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Europese Prehistorie
- Brusgaard N.Ø. & Hussain S.T. (2024), Bevers in de steentijd: Bevers beïnvloeden al millennia het ecosysteem – en het leven van mensen, Zoogdier : Tijdschrift voor Zoogdierbescherming en Zoogdierkunde 35(1): 10-12.
- Brusgaard N.Ø., Kooistra J., Schepers M., Dee M., Raemaekers D. & Çakırlar C. (2024), Early animal management in northern Europe: multi-proxy evidence from Swifterbant, the Netherlands, Antiquity 98(399): 654-671.
- Wright A.M., Cachora L. & Brusgaard N.Ø. (2024), An Ecology of the Patayan-Yuman Dreamland. In: Wright A.M. (Ed.), Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
- Brusgaard N.Ø. (2024), Hidden Hunters: Hunting Scenes as Micro-Landscapes in Black Desert Rock Art. In: Düring B. & Plug J. (Eds.), The Archaeology of the ‘Margins’. Studies on Ancient West Asia in Honour of Peter M.M.G. Akkermans. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 53. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 257-271.
- Dreshaj M., Dee M., Brusgaard NØ, Raemaekers D. & Peeters H. (2023), High-resolution Bayesian chronology of the earliest evidence of domesticated animals in the Dutch wetlands (Hardinxveld-Giessendam archaeological sites), PLoS ONE 18(1): e0280619.
- Raemaekers D., Brusgaard N.Ø., Dreshaj M., Erven J., Dee M. & Peeters H. (2023), Going against the grain? : The transition to farming in the Dutch wetlands re-examined (5000–4000 BCE). In: Groß D. & Rothstein M. (Eds.), Changing identity in a changing world: current studies on the Stone Age around 4000 BCE. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 225-233.
- Hussain S.T. & Brusgaard N.Ø. (2023), Human-beaver cohabitation in the Early and Mid-Holocene of Northern Europe: re-visiting Mesolithic material culture and ecology through a multispecies lens, The Holocene : .
- Brusgaard N.Ø., Dee M.W., Dreshaj M., Erven J., Hurk Y. van den, Raemaekers D. & Çakırlar C. (2022), Hunting before herding: a zooarchaeological and stable isotopic study of suids (Sus sp.) at Hardinxveld-Giessendam, the Netherlands (5450-4250 cal BC), PLoS ONE 17(2): e0262557.
- Brusgaard N.Ø., Çakirlar C., Dee M., Dreshaj M., Erven J., Peeters H. & Raemaekers D. (2022), No compelling evidence for early small-scale animal husbandry in Atlantic NW Europe, Scientific Reports 12: 1387.
- Brusgaard N.Ø. & Akkermans K.A.N. (2021), Hunting and havoc: scenes depicted in Black Desert rock art of Jebel Qurma, Jordan. In: Davidson I. & Nowell A. (Eds.), Making scenes: global perspectives on scenes in rock art. New York: Berghahn Books.
- Hurk Y. van den, Brusgaard N.Ø., Erven J., Slim F.G., Filioglou D, Kamjan S., Kock W. de, Winter R.M. & Çakırlar C. (2020), Honderd jaar archeozoölogie in Groningen, Paleo-Aktueel (31): .
- Brusgaard N.Ø. (2020), Depicting the camel: representations of the dromedary camel in the Black Desert rock art of Jordan. In: Akkermans P.M.M.G. (Ed.), Landscapes of survival: the archaeology and epigraphy of Jordan's north-eastern desert and beyond. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 287-304.
- Brusgaard N.Ø., Fokkens H. & Kootker L.M. (2019), An isotopic perspective on the socio-economic significance of livestock in Bronze Age West-Frisia, the Netherlands (2000-800 BC), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27: .
- Brusgaard N.Ø. (17 October 2019), Carving interactions: rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan (Dissertatie. Department of World Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Akkermans P.M.M.G., Düring B.
- Brusgaard N.Ø. (2019), Carving interactions: rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Brusgaard N.O. (2016), ‘Wives for cattle’? Bridewealth in the Bronze Age. In: Müller A. & Jansen R. (Eds.), Metaaltijden 3: bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden no. 3. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 9-19.
- Brusgaard N.O. (2015), Pastoralist rock art in the Black Desert of Jordan, Symbols in the Landscape : Rock Art and its Context : proceedings of the XIX International Rock Art Conference IFRAO 2015. IFRAO International Rock Art Conference 2015 no. ARKEOS 37 761-767.
- Brusgaard N.Ø., Fokkens H., As S.F.M. van & Huisman H.D.J. (2015), The potential of metal debris: a Late Iron Age ironworking site at Oss-Schalkskamp, Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 45(3): 345-363.
- Arnoldussen S. & Brusgaard N.Ø. (2015), Production in deposition: structured deposition of Iron Age ironworking elements (The Netherlands), Lunula XXIII: 115-124.
- Brusgaard N.Ø. (2015), Rotskunst in de Zwarte Woestijn van Jordanië, Phoenix: bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux 61(2-3): 71-82.