Bruxelles et sa rivière

Deligne, Chloé

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“…What is more, local hydrology and topography could shape the focus of healthscaping activities within a certain community, a process that can be sometimes reconstructed by studying a historical landscape. For instance, the strength of a river's current, itself a product of geology and climate, and its potential to supply fresh water and hydraulic energy and flush refuse and other outpourings, helped determine the type of waste and water infrastructures that a community could support (Deligne 2003;Gläser 2004;Groenewoudt and Benders 2013;Van Oosten 2015). Thus, even in the absence of visible, artificial remnants of healthscaping, it is possible to hypothesize how settlements were designed preventatively, and perhaps excavate accordingly.…”

Section: Materials Artefacts Deposits and Landscapesmentioning

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“…For some regions, these insights can be tied to documents on the use of local natural resources and issues of pollution, such as disputes on fishing or hunting. The insights from archaeological data have been incorporated in recent environmental histories, which have challenged a different stereotype, namely of the unpolluted, pristine natural and living environment before the Industrial Revolution, but can similarly be linked to the presence and impact of healthscaping (Poulussen 1987;Deligne 2003).…”

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The Healthscaping Approach: Towards a Global History of Early Public Health

Geltner¹,

Coomans²

2022

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This article presents a modular, multidisciplinary methodology for tracing how different communities in the deeper past adapted their behaviors and shaped their environments to address the health risks they faced, a process also known as “healthscaping.” Historians have made major strides in reconstructing preventative health programs across the pre- or non-industrial world, thereby challenging a common view of public health as a product of Euro-American modernity and biomedicine. However, these studies’ general focus on cities and their reliance on archival and other documents that are more readily available in Euro-American contexts, limit the intervention’s potential for rethinking the earlier history of public health comparatively, transregionally and on a global scale. A broader definition of health, additional sources and alternative methodologies allow us to expand research in and especially beyond urban Europe, promoting a global turn in health historiography that operates outside the seductive teleology of modernization, colonialism and imperialism.

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The Healthscaping Approach: Towards a Global History of Early Public Health

Geltner¹,

Coomans²

2022

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“…In Brussels, the research of the Senne valley is aimed at creating a better understanding of the hydrographic network and its relationship with past urbanization. Historians have already established that there are major difficulties with reconstructing the course of the pristine brooks and river channels (see for instance Deligne, ). A series of recent geoarchaeological studies now permit the reconstruction of a number of these ancient branches.…”

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Urban geoarchaeology in Belgium: Experiences and innovations

2019

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Geoarchaeological research in urban contexts is a relatively recent development in Belgian geoarchaeology, with pioneering studies dating back to the 1990s. In the beginning of the 21st century, a specific research protocol was developed in Brussels, and in the last years, there have been several attempts to apply a similar approach to urban contexts in Flanders and occasionally in Wallonia. Current debates in urban geoarchaeology mainly focus on: The study of site stratigraphy (microstratified layers and Dark Earths) The impact of urbanization on the soil Rivers in towns Reconstruction of the ancient relief and its modifications through time Soil erosion and soil protection Ancient soil pollution The integration of geoarchaeology with other archaeo‐environmental studies (archaeobotany, archaeozoology, etc.) Key themes for the future development of Belgian urban geoarchaeology include the in situ preservation of sites; a further integration with other methods and method development; systematic studies producing topographical insight and mapping; and synthesis work on critical issues.

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The Current State and Future Prospects of Theory in European Post-Medieval Archaeology

Courtney

2009

International Handbook of Historical Archaeology

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Bruxelles et sa rivière

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The Healthscaping Approach: Towards a Global History of Early Public Health

The Healthscaping Approach: Towards a Global History of Early Public Health

Urban geoarchaeology in Belgium: Experiences and innovations

The Current State and Future Prospects of Theory in European Post-Medieval Archaeology

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