Frank Vermeulen
Ghent University, Archaeology, Faculty Member
- Since 1998 Frank Vermeulen is Full Professor in Roman archaeology and archaeological methodology at Ghent University,... moreSince 1998 Frank Vermeulen is Full Professor in Roman archaeology and archaeological methodology at Ghent University, where he chairs the Department of Archaeology. Between 2008 and 2011 he was also part-time Research Professor at the research centre CIDEHUS of the University of Évora (Portugal) and he was in recent years visiting professor at UCBerkeley and Macquarie University (Sydney). In his research two major themes dominate: the archaeology of ancient Mediterranean landscapes and Roman rural and urban settlement history. He has a special interest in developing and using non-destructive survey techniques, such as aerial photography and geophysics. He currently directs field projects in Italy (Potenza Valley Survey in Marche and on several Roman urban sites in Latium). Recently he also directed fieldwork in Corsica (Roman town of Mariana) and Portugal (Roman town and territory of Ammaia).edit
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The book From the Mountains to the Sea proposes an innovative synthesis of recent archaeological research on town formation and urbanisation, and connected Roman colonisation, of the central part of Adriatic Italy. Frank Vermeulen... more
The book From the Mountains to the Sea proposes an innovative synthesis of recent archaeological research on town formation and urbanisation, and connected Roman colonisation, of the central part of Adriatic Italy. Frank Vermeulen analyses the formation and character of Roman towns in this still somewhat understudied area of central Italy, thus contributing to a better understanding of the lasting Roman impact on conquered societies in Italy as a whole. During the past decade much archaeological fieldwork has been conducted on urban sites in this area, including exciting field surveys, and it is now high time for a geographical and historical contextualisation of the more than 40 Roman urban sites known in this area, based on a careful review of the scholarly tradition and the bringing together of much new, often unpublished or preliminary published, field data. The result is the first comprehensive synthesis of the urban phenomenon in a region characterized by one of the most dense town networks of the Roman Empire. Some of the main sub-themes to discuss when dealing with Roman-inspired urbanism are present in this book, including: town formation, town planning, the structural relationship town-territory, religious aspects and urban sanctuaries, public buildings (fora, basilicae, baths, porticoes, theatres, amphitheatres, macella, etc.) and domestic architecture. But beyond the mostly archaeologically-driven investigation of architectural features of the colonies and all other towns in the study region, there is an attempt to understand the disposition and functioning of all the individual town centres in their wider context of territory, region and state. An additional important feature of the book is the gazetteer of urban sites which forms a starting point for all those working in Roman Italy.
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This is a collective publication (bilingual English-Portuguese) of the Radio-Past team directed at a wider public, presenting the main results of archaeological survey and excavations at the abandoned Roman town site of Ammaia. It... more
This is a collective publication (bilingual English-Portuguese) of the Radio-Past team directed at a wider public, presenting the main results of archaeological survey and excavations at the abandoned Roman town site of Ammaia. It includes many images, such as 3D visualisations.
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Cette presentation a pour but de contribuer a l‟etude, la preservation et la valorisation d‟une partie du patrimoine archeologique, c'est-a-dire les structures topographiques et architecturales de sites anciens complexes, a partir de... more
Cette presentation a pour but de contribuer a l‟etude, la preservation et la valorisation d‟une partie du patrimoine archeologique, c'est-a-dire les structures topographiques et architecturales de sites anciens complexes, a partir de methodes et techniques nondestructives. L‟utilisation de differents types d‟approches non-destructives, comme l‟etude de l‟imagerie satellitaire, la prospection aerienne a basse altitude, des methodes intensives de prospection geophysique (radar, laser, magnetique, ...), et leur application integree pour gerer et etudier le patrimoine archeologique, seront discutes et illustres par un exemple precis et actuel: le cas du site archeologique de Mariana en Corse septentrionale.
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Research Interests: Computer Science, Computer Vision, Aerial Archaeology, Biomass, Archaeological Prospection, and 15 moreDigital Photogrammetry applied to Archaeology, Canopy, Aerial Photographic Interpretation, Aerial Photogrammetry, Aerial Photography, Chlorophyll, Airborne Remote sensing, Aerial Archeology, Crop mark, Aerial Photos, Airborne LiDAR, Agisoft PhotoScan, Digital terrain modelling, Canopy height model, and Crop Surface Model
ABSTRACT 15 years after the resumption of research and fieldwork at the archaeological site of Mariana in the Département de Haute-Corse, and in conjunction with the publication of the proceedings of the international colloquium « Mariana... more
ABSTRACT 15 years after the resumption of research and fieldwork at the archaeological site of Mariana in the Département de Haute-Corse, and in conjunction with the publication of the proceedings of the international colloquium « Mariana et la vallée du Golo » we present here a synthesis of the finds recovered through excavations and surveys of various types (topographic, geomorphologic, aerial and geophysical) on and around the Roman city. This paper analyses and situates all the material collected to date in the archives and on the ground, reviewing the findings of old and recent excavations and rescue interventions conducted in the 1990s and 2010s. These data, spatially reorganized within a GIS environment, provide the perfect opportunity for new observations on Roman urbanism in a provincial context, which, in view of the exceptional nature of especially the geophysical prospection results, provide extremely promising insights and avenues for further research of this second town of Roman Corsica.
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The European project, “RADIO-PAST” was launched in 2009 within the Marie Curie framework “Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways”. The project aims to join resources and different skills to tackle each possible aspect connected with... more
The European project, “RADIO-PAST” was launched in 2009 within the Marie Curie framework “Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways”. The project aims to join resources and different skills to tackle each possible aspect connected with “non-destructive” approaches to understand and reconstruct complex archaeological sites. The consortium of 7 partners has chosen an “open laboratory for research and experimentation” in and around the abandoned Roman site of Ammaia in central Portugal, but some research activities are carried out by the partner institutions in different areas of the Mediterranean and continental Europe. This paper describes the various methods and procedures which were used to undertake the three dimensional reconstruction of this Roman urban site in Lusitania.
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Summary. This paper presents the results of an integrated survey project aiming to achieve the diachro-nic reconstruction of changes in river beds during historical times in the PotenzaValley, in mid-Adriatic Italy. Here intensive surveys... more
Summary. This paper presents the results of an integrated survey project aiming to achieve the diachro-nic reconstruction of changes in river beds during historical times in the PotenzaValley, in mid-Adriatic Italy. Here intensive surveys are being carried out by a ...
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ABSTRACT In this paper, the impact of spatial sample density and three-dimensional migration processing on the interpretation of archaeological ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data is assessed. First, the question of how to determine the... more
ABSTRACT In this paper, the impact of spatial sample density and three-dimensional migration processing on the interpretation of archaeological ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data is assessed. First, the question of how to determine the sample interval required to take full advantage of the spatial resolution capabilities of GPR without oversampling is addressed. To this end, we transform a test profile into the frequency–wavenumber (f–k) domain and estimate the required sample interval from the wavenumber values. For the presented data set, collected at the Roman town Ammaia (Portugal), this resulted in a transect spacing approximately three times the distance prescribed by the λmin/4 criterion (where λmin is the minimum observed wavelength). Second, the effect of three-dimensional migration is assessed. The data set, sampled as prescribed by the analysis of the f–k plot, is migrated with two- and three-dimensional phase-shift algorithms, and the migrated results are compared with non-migrated data. It is shown that certain subtle features are better resolved by three-dimensional migration. Third, it is investigated whether three-dimensional migration following the application of an interpolation algorithm such as Delaunay triangulation or interpolation based on τ-p transform, can further relax spatial sampling requirements. For the GPR data shown in this article, it is demonstrated that interpolation and three-dimensional migration of slightly aliased data, collected with a transect spacing equal to five times the outcome of the λmin/4 criterion, still allow a faithful reconstruction of the original, non-aliased time-slices. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Abstract In 2000 a new phase of archaeological field activities started on the abandoned city site of Mariana, located south of Bastia (NE-Corsica). Within the on-going international research project Projet Collectif de Recherche:... more
Abstract In 2000 a new phase of archaeological field activities started on the abandoned city site of Mariana, located south of Bastia (NE-Corsica). Within the on-going international research project Projet Collectif de Recherche: Mariana et la vallée du Golo a joint team of the ...
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POTENTIA: UNA RICOGNIZIONE INTEGRATA DI UNA COLONIA ROMANA SULLA COSTA ADRIATICALa ricerca presentata in questa sede integra i risultati di una ricognizione archeologica intensiva nell'area urbana della colonia romana di Potentia... more
POTENTIA: UNA RICOGNIZIONE INTEGRATA DI UNA COLONIA ROMANA SULLA COSTA ADRIATICALa ricerca presentata in questa sede integra i risultati di una ricognizione archeologica intensiva nell'area urbana della colonia romana di Potentia (regione Marche). Di recente per la ricerca sono stati impiegati vari metodi non distruttivi di ricognizione, come la fotografia aerea obliqua, la ricognizione geofisica, la ricognizione geomorfologica e quella intensiva. I risultati di un precederte lavoro di scavo, lo studio delle fonti antiche e dei manufatti trovati sono integrati in un nuovo appioccio all'urbanizzazione di questa colonia dell'Adriatico. In questa sede viene presentata una pianta completamente nuova e molto più dettagliata del tessuto urbano di Potentia, comprendente l'intero sistema stradale e le difese urbane, il Foro, vari complessi monumentali e molti elementi dell'edilizia domestica e delle strutture funerarie. Questo lavoro è parte del Potenza Valley Survey, ch...
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Our researchcontributes to the study ofRoman urbanization in the Italian peninsula) both in the central Adriatic area and beyond. It ftcuses on the integrated use of archaeolog-icalfield methods and non-destructive techniques. The study... more
Our researchcontributes to the study ofRoman urbanization in the Italian peninsula) both in the central Adriatic area and beyond. It ftcuses on the integrated use of archaeolog-icalfield methods and non-destructive techniques. The study of the urban layout of the city of Potentia is an ...
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Ancient quarries are intriguing archaeological sites, but their detailed recording is complex. This paper presents a cost-effective approach to mapping of the Roman quarry site of Pitaranha (Portugal–Spain). First, aerial photographs were... more
Ancient quarries are intriguing archaeological sites, but their detailed recording is complex. This paper presents a cost-effective approach to mapping of the Roman quarry site of Pitaranha (Portugal–Spain). First, aerial photographs were acquired using a radio-controlled digital reflex camera attached to a Helikite, which allowed the acquisition of the necessary low-altitude aerial footage in the very unstable wind conditions above the quarry. Using computer vision algorithms, the resulting set of photographs was semi-automatically ...
Research Interests: Archaeology, Geochemistry, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Aerial Archaeology, and 15 moreArchaeometry, Digital Photogrammetry applied to Archaeology, RF Design and Applications, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ancient Quarrying, Portugal, Archaeological survey, Aerial Photogrammetry, Aerial Photography, Kite Aerial Photography, SfM, Roman Quarry, Balloon Aerial Photography, Helikite Aerial Photography, and Orthophoto
ABSTRACT A multimethod approach using petrography and strontium (Sr) isotopic analysis was applied to determine the geological source of 17 marble artefacts from the Roman town of Ammaia (Portugal). All samples are calcitic, with... more
ABSTRACT A multimethod approach using petrography and strontium (Sr) isotopic analysis was applied to determine the geological source of 17 marble artefacts from the Roman town of Ammaia (Portugal). All samples are calcitic, with dolomite, quartz and muscovite as accessory minerals. The marbles are characteristically medium-grained with a maximum grain size (MGS) between 0.98 mm and 1.82 mm, have a heteroblastic texture, and have curved to embayed calcite grain boundaries. 87Sr/86Sr values of marble leachates range from 0.708488 to 0.708639. Comparison with Hispanic and Mediterranean marbles suggests the Estremoz Anticline as the most likely source for the Ammaia marble, especially for architectural marble. This hypothesis is supported by the geographical proximity of the Estremoz marble district and the long and expensive overland transport required for other marbles to reach Ammaia.
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Taelman Devi(1), Vermeulen Frank(2), Deprez Sarah(3), De Dapper Morgan(4), De Paepe Paul(5), Vandenabeele Peter(6) ... (1) Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of Europe, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium;... more
Taelman Devi(1), Vermeulen Frank(2), Deprez Sarah(3), De Dapper Morgan(4), De Paepe Paul(5), Vandenabeele Peter(6) ... (1) Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of Europe, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium; Devi.Taelman@UGent.be
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