Quentin Bourgeois
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. Q.P.J. Bourgeois MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2453
- q.p.j.bourgeois@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7518-2142
Quentin Bourgeois is an Associate Professor in European Prehistory at the Faculty of Archaeology. He is also Head of the Department of World Archaeology.
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News
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How lasers and volunteers are uncovering thousands of archaeological sites -
Changing of the guard: Quentin Bourgeois to succeed Joanita Vroom as Head of the Department of World Archaeology -
Citizen scientists discover more than 1,000 new burial mounds -
Heritage Quest project wins European Heritage Europa Nostra Award -
Citizen science project Heritage Quest wins European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022 -
Photo report: 'Ground-truthing' on the Veluwe -
Genetics proves it: Indo-European did not come to Europe on horseback -
3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence -
Archaeologists receive funding for science communication: ‘We want to change the public image of archaeology’ -
Investigating a prehistoric Pan-European culture with an NWO grant: ‘One of the most transformative periods in European prehistory’ -
NWO Vidi grant for 11 Leiden researchers -
Leiden archaeology project nominated for volunteer prize -
Employing Artificial Intelligence in the search for archaeological remains -
The kick of citizen science: ‘It's a kind of addiction’ -
Hunt for archaeological remains without leaving your home -
Prehistoric Veluwe more densely populated than previously thought
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Preserve burial mounds from the comfort of your own home -
Burial mound research in National Geographic Historia -
Of home-loving men and intinerant marriageable women -
City of Epe issues subsidy for research Quentin Bourgeois -
Archaeologist Quentin Bourgeois and astronomer Frans Snik nominated for The Young Academy -
Veni for Quentin Bourgeois
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Current PhD candidates
Quentin Bourgeois (dr.) is an associate professor in European prehistory. His main interests are funerary archaeology combined with network analysis and GIS approaches in later prehistory. He is currently a member of de Jonge Akademie.
Quentin obtained his PhD in 2013 (cum Laude) at Leiden University within the research project Ancestral Mounds. His PhD was awarded the W.A. van Es-award for Dutch Archaeology (2014). In his research, he dealt with groups of barrows and their position within the landscape. Through extensive GIS-analyses, he attempted to shed some light on the choice of location for the placement of the burial monument. Why were they placed there, what could be seen from that location, and how did this develop through time? These findings were compared to data on the vegetation surrounding these barrows and the practices surrounding the burial itself. His research sheds more light on the choices behind the positioning of these burial monuments. The project received the SIKB Prize for best archaeological research team in 2009, and a book resulting from it was received by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 2012.
In 2013 Quentin obtained a Rubicon grant from NWO for his project “Walking along Ancestral Lines”. He investigated the emergence of long barrow alignments throughout Europe in the 3rd Millennium BC as part of the research group of prof. Helle Vandkilde and Mads Holst at Aarhus University in Denmark. In 2015 he was granted a VENI project entitled “Networked Landscapes”, where he aims to investigate the landscape organisation of the so-called Corded Ware groups using GIS and network analyses. In 2016 he started a fieldwork project on the Epe-Niersen barrow alignment, one of the longest and best-preserved prehistoric barrow alignments in the Netherlands. In collaboration with the municipality of Epe and the National Museum of Antiquities, we aim to increase our knowledge of this site with extensive surveys and targeted excavations, as well as to disseminate the scientific results of the project to the wider public. In 2017 Quentin became a member of The Young Academy or de Jonge Akademie, established by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2005.
Associate professor
- Faculty of Archaeology
- World Archaeology
- European Prehistory
- Helmecke F., Olerud L. & Bourgeois Q.P.J. (6 June 2024), From probing questions to probabilities : reconstructing information transfer in the third millennium BCE through Corded Ware and Bell Beaker burials. Big Data and Archaeology: Towards an AI Solution. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz. [lecture].
- Fontijn D.R., Fokkens H. & Bourgeois Q. (1 December 2019), Genocide in de bronstijd?. Interviewed by Spiering H. for NRC Handelsblad, wetenschapsbijlage: 6-9. [interview].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (21 August 2017), Uniek onderzoek bij de Galgenberg. Interviewed by Noorel Anton van for De Stentor: 20. [interview].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (25 October 2017), Science071. for Science071 (Sleutelstad FM). [interview].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2014), Alles op zijn tijd een onderzoek naar het tempo van grafheuvelconstructie met behulp van14C en Bayesian statistics (Brussel). [lecture].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2014), Networked Landscapes Modelling supra-regional communities in the early 3rd Millennium BC. (Leiden). [lecture].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2014), The social landscape of Corded Ware groups Walking Along Ancestral Lines (Aarhus). [lecture].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2013), Het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van monumentale grafheuvellandschappen (Ede, AWN). [lecture].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2013), Along Ancestral Lines Grafheuvelrijen op de Veluwe (Apeldoorn, AWN-afdeling). [lecture].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2012), Walking along Ancestral Lines Skyline analysis in the context of prehistoric barrow alignments in the Low Countries (Leiden). [lecture].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2012), Walking the line and beyond.The creation and formation of barrow landscapes in the Low Countries (Namur). [lecture].
- Bourgeois Q.P.J. (2012), Walking along Ancestral Lines Skyline analysis in the context of prehistoric barrow alignments in the Low Countries (Amsterdam). [lecture].
- Fontijn D.R. & Bourgeois Q.P.J. (17 October 2008), Diversity in uniformity- burial mounds in the Netherlands. Tagung Graeberlandschafte der Bronzezeit. Herne, Deutschland. [lecture].