Review by Lien Van Geel, Columbia University.

To see what UrbNet accomplished in 2024, please take a look at our annual report.

New affiliated postdoc at UrbNet.

Today marks the launch of the international research project ‘Lost Cities Rediscovered: Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia’ (LoCi), funded the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.

Rowan Stanley English has successfully defended his PhD dissertation.

We are pleased to announce that Rowan Stanley English will defend the dissertation titled 'The North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean: Using ivory to reveal long-distance trade networks in the early medieval period' on Wednesday, 23 April 2025.

New publication by former UrbNet PhD student Neeke Hammers.

From 1st to 31st of March 2025, Marie Theres Wittmann, a visiting PhD student from the University of Oxford (Lincoln College), conducted a research stay at Centre for Urban Network Evolutions.

New culture comment in Current World Archaeology by UrbNet Centre Director Rubina Raja and Centre Deputy Director Søren M. Sindbæk.

New postdoc at UrbNet.