E.j. Kroon Mphil
Researcher
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Erik completed his bachelor's and research master's in archaeology cum laude at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, where he specialised in the Late Prehistory of North-western Europe and Material Culture Studies. For his master’s thesis he studied the mechanisms behind the Corded Ware Culture transition in the Western coastal area of the Netherlands through the lens of ceramic technology.
Research Interest
Within the Economies of Destruction project, Erik contributes to the interpretation, analysis and synthesis of archaeological data resulting from the work of the individual PhD’s and Postdoc’s.
Publications
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Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2017), The impact of male burials on the construction of Corded Ware identity: Reconstructing networks of information in the 3rd millennium BC [Networked Landscapes: Modelling supra-regional communities in the early 3rd Millennium BC] (translation: Bourgeois Q.P.J. & Kroon E.J.), PLoS ONE 12(10): 1-15.
