June 29, 2020

Lanceerbaan Lettele (MOOC Archaeology of Conflicts)

September 30, 2025

VR environment for the course "Historical Archaeology"

This is a 3D reconstruction of the Jordaan in the 19th century, produced for the course "Historical Archaeology". The model was created by the 4D Research Lab of the University of Amsterdam for the project 'Virtual Past Places' in collaboration with course teacher Vladimir Stissi. This model contains a few houses by which photos from the 'beeldarchief' can be compared by students, to understand the spatiality and layout of the neighbourhood and houses. This model is accessible as a VR room using Hubs Cloud software (virtualplaces-uva.eu). For reproducability and reuse, consult the manual at https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.30490373 and follow the instructions to set up your own Hubs Cloud instance. For the relevant dataset, please use the link to the Zenodo deposition. Funding and context Virtual Past Places has been made possible by a grant, the 'Stimuleringsregeling Online Onderwijs' from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, OCW), coordinated by SURF, the cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions. Virtual Past Places includes open access publication of all developed teaching materials as Open Educational Resources, the development of training materials, and the organisation of inspiration and counselling sessions for peers. In case you're interested in the results of this research project, and/or participate in it, please contact J.Waagen@uva.nl.

August 19, 2022

Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe (DALME)

The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe provides access to over 500 records, primarily household inventories, that are pertinent to the study of material culture in later medieval Europe. Records typically incorporate original images, facing-page transcriptions with TEI markup, record descriptions, and metadata. New records are added on a regular basis. The site also publishes brief essays that feature inventories and objects in the collection. The project actively seeks contributors.

January 8, 2021

Veldonderzoek in Liessel (MOOC Archaeology of Conflicts)

January 27, 2021

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (MOOC Archaeology of Conflicts)

October 22, 2020

Nationaal Militair Museum - Schilderijen (MOOC Archaeology of Conflicts)

October 20, 2020

Nationaal Militair Museum - Krijgsgeschiedenis (MOOC Archaeology of Conflicts)

February 26, 2026

Byzantium & Friends | 151. East Roman archaeology: goals and challenges, with Marica Cassis Thursday Feb 26, 2026

A conversation with Marica Cassis (University of Calgary) about the archaeological study of the east Roman world and how it interfaces with traditional, text-based historiography. What can archaeology see and what not? What challenges has it faced to emerge as a field and what are the prospects that it faces today? The conversation was inspired by Marica's introduction to Medieval Archaeology in the East Roman World (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2024).

January 12, 2021

Nationaal Instituut voor Militaire Historie (MOOC Archaeology of Conflicts)

December 30, 2025

Lessons Learned

Agent-based modelling (ABM) is one of the most widely applied computational modelling research techniques in archaeology, because it is well suited to the questions asked by archaeologists. However, the access to vocational training for ABM is limited. In this paper we present the Open Educational Resources (OER) that we produced in an international cooperation. For this purpose, we created online and open tutorials for ABM for archaeologists. In addition, how-to guides and support material were created, both for teachers and students. The materials adhere to international (European) standards in relation to education and the Digital Skills Passport for archaeology. The teaching materials have been well tested using a diverse group of archaeologists during various international conferences and meetings. It was shown that the knowledge and skills of the participants in relation to ABM improved. In addition, the demand for the teaching materials and the workshops was high, ensuring that the tutorials on ABM will be used in the future.