Roeland Emaus is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

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Office days

Thursday or Friday

Research

His main focus lies in the relationship people have with their environment⁠. How they have used the environment, how they changed the environment but also how the environment limits them⁠. To understand this relationship, one must understand how this relationship has come about, and how this relationship has evolved over time⁠. The best way to understand this relationship is by studying the landscape and the remains of human activities within them⁠. Either by sampling the physical landscape (remote sensing, coring, excavating), observing the ‘topographic archive’, or by means of GIS technologies and analysis⁠. These methodologies are highly symbiotic⁠. Only through working with all possible methodologies can one really shed light on the historical landscape and the people within it⁠.

Teaching activities

In 2016 Roeland started a position as a lecturer at the Saxion University of Applied Sciences where he teaches Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Geo-Archaeology and is developing applications for Drone (UAV) Remote Sensing in Archaeology⁠.

Curriculum vitae

Roeland started his academic training at Utrecht University where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Human Geography and Spatial Planning, followed by a Master’s degree in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam and a Master’s degree (cum laude) in Geography & Geomatics at Ghent University⁠.
He has worked during and after his academic training at various private archaeological research consultancies and municipal heritage services⁠. Since 2011 he is also part of the Udhruh Archaeological Project (Southern Jordan), worked on the Charlemagnes Backyard Project in 2013-2014 (Leiden University) and is involved in various research projects throughout Jordan⁠. In 2017 he was asked to join the Naturalis excavation of a Triceratops bonebed (Wyoming, USA) to study and document its geology and taphonomy⁠. In 2018 he joined the medieval archaeology group to study the Merovingian rural economy⁠. His current research focuses on post-Roman land use and livelihood in Northwest Europe⁠.