Richard Jansen
Professor
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Richard Jansen (Zevenhuizen, 1969) is lecturer of European Prehistory. He studied prehistoric and Caribbean archaeology at Leiden University. His MA thesis concerned the analysis and interpretation of two Iron Age settlements from the Maaskant region (Noord-Brabant, southern-Netherlands). Jansen was appointed in 1997 as researcher within the Maaskant project, one of the most extensive and longest running archaeological projects in the Netherlands, with the excavations at Oss at its centre. About 60 ha have been excavated in this region so far, giving a perspective on the origin and development of the cultural landscape, including settlement, burial and ritual practices, from 2500 BC till 250 AD. Since 1997 he coordinates and supervises (annual) fieldwork within the (broader) Maaskant area with students from Leiden University and abroad. He currently lectures several BA courses in Archaeology of Northwestern-Europe.
Research Interest
Archaeology
Publications
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Fontijn D.R & Jansen R. (2013), The last mound(s) of Zevenbergen – cause, aims, and methods of the 2007 fieldwork campaign. In: Fontijn D.R., Vaart S. van der, Jansen R. (Eds.) Transformation through Destruction – A Monumental and Extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the Ritual Landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen. Leiden: Sidestone. 15-34.
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Vlaskamp R.J.C., Geurds A. & Jansen R. (2014), Reporte de las investigaciones arqueológicas entre 2011-2014 en el sitio prehispánico de Aguas Buenas, Chontales, Nicaragua, Mi Museo y Vos 8(29): 6-12.
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Janssen, R., Joordens, J.C.A., Koutamanis, D., Puspaningrum, M., de Vos, J., van der Lubbe, J., Reijmer, J.J.G., O. Hampe, Vonhof & H.B. (2016), Tooth enamel stable isotopes of Holocene and Pleistocene fossil fauna reveal glacial and interglacial paleoenvironments of hominins in Indonesia., Quaternary Science Reviews (144): 145-154.
