Jeroen van Zoolingen is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

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Current research

In 2025 Jeroen van Zoolingen started his PhD research titled ‘The meaning and use of prehistoric cultural landscapes in the Early Roman Period in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. Based on case studies from the Hague region’. When in the first half of the 1st century AD the Roman army arrived in the present-day province of South Holland (the Netherlands) it encountered a sparsely occupied area. Within a few decades this area was transformed and incorporated into the Roman province Germania Inferior. This study explores how Roman authority was co-expressed through the integration of the Late Iron Age cultural landscape.

Curriculum vitae

Jeroen van Zoolingen studied Archaeology and Prehistory at Leiden University, with a specialization in Provincial Roman Archaeology. Since 2004 he has been employed by the Municipality of The Hague. His work includes most aspects of the archaeological practice: excavation, prospection, scientific (theoretical) research, writing and reporting, and presentation. Jeroen is (co)author of several reports and articles on Roman Archaeology in the Western Netherlands. Currently, he is research leader of several excavations at sites dating from the Neolithic until the Late Middle Ages.

Next to his work for the Municipality of The Hague, Jeroen is author and publisher of a populair-scientific book about the archaeology of the Duin- en Bollenstreek, an area between present day Haarlem and Leiden. In 2025 he started his PhD research on the use and meaning of Late Iron Age cultural and human landscapes during the Early Roman Period in the province of South Holland in The Netherlands.

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