prof. dr. N.G.A.M. Roymans
- Telephone:+31 20 59 86369
- Room nr:9a-39
- E-mail:n.g.a.m.roymans@vu.nl
- Unit:faculteit der letteren (oudheid)
- Position:Chair: Westeuropean Archaeology (Archeologisch Centrum Vrije Universiteit -ACVU-)
Office hours: All days, except on Fridays
Curriculum Vitae
Research interests
Field archaeology and landscape archaeology; the archaeology of Celto-Germanic societies and their integration into the Roman empire; ethnicity and ethnogenesis in the Roman empire; Late Iron Age coinage.
Teaching
Roymans gives a wide range of courses of the bachelor and the master program of Archaeology
Research
Roymans is leader of several current research programs, which are funded by the Dutch Science Organisation (NWO). Each of the programs includes several projects for PhD students and/or postdocs.
- The Batavians: Ethnic identity in a frontier situation.
- The biography of a sandy landscape: cultural history, heritage management and spatial planning in the Southern Netherlands
- Rural communities in the civitas Batavorum and their integration into the Roman empire
- Roman villa landscapes in the North: economy, culture, life-styles
Archaeological fieldwork:
Scientific director of a wide range of archaeological fieldwork projects in the Netherlands. The excavations are linked to the research agenda of the ACVU and carried out by the Hendrik Brunsting Stichting of the ACVU. Among the recently investigated sites are Roman-period rural settlements in the Dutch river area (Tiel-Passewaay, Geldermalsen), major Roman temple sites (Kessel, Elst), and multi-period settlement excavations in the sandy landscape of the Southern Netherlands (Weert, Nederweert, Someren).
Publications
Principal books
- Roymans, N., 2004: Ethnic identity and imperial power. The Batavians in the Early-Roman empire, Amsterdam (Amsterdam University Press) (Abstract).
- Roymans, N./T. Derks/S. Heeren (eds), 2007: Een Bataafse gemeenschap in de wereld van het Romeinse rijk. Opgravingen te Tiel-Passewaaij, Utrecht.
Principle articles
- Derks, T./N. Roymans, 2006: Returning auxiliary veterans in the Roman empire: some methodological considerations, Journal of Roman Archaeology 16, 121-135.
- Gerritsen, F./N. Roymans, 2006: Central places and the construction of tribal identities. The case of the Late Iron Age Lower Rhine region, in C. Haselgrove (ed.), Les mutations de la fin de l’Âge du Fer, Glux-en-Glenne (Collection Bibracte 12/4), 251-266.
- Roymans, N., 2006: De kerstening van het landschap. Een langetermijngeschiedenis van het Maas-Demer-Scheldegebied, Trajecta 15, 305-324.
- Roymans, N., 2007: Understanding social change in the Late Iron Age Lower Rhine region, in C. Haselgrove/T. Moore (eds), The Later Iron Age in Britain and beyond, Oxford, 478-491.
- Roymans, N., 2007: On the latènisation of Late Iron Age material culture in the Lower Rhine/Meuse area, in S. Möllers/W. Schlüter/S. Sievers (eds), Keltische Einflüsse im nördlichen Mitteleuropa während der mittleren und jüngeren vorrömischen Eisenzeit, Bonn, 311-325.
Extensive list of publications
Professional activities
- Editor of the series Amsterdam Archaeological Studies (Amsterdam University Press).
- Editor of the series Zuidnederlandse Archeologische Rapporten (Archeologisch Centrum Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).
- Vice- chairman Dutch Archaeological Research School ARCHON.
- Vice- chairman Hendrik Brunsting Stichting.
- Member of the Centraal College van Deskundigen Archeologie.
Links
Ancillary activities
Centraal College van Dekundigen
