LOCO

The LOCO project studies mobility in the Low Countries over 7,000 years using an integrated, interdisciplinary approach. It treats the region as a key European crossroads for the movement of people, materials, and ideas.

The LOCO project aims to document the driving forces behind the movement of materials, people, and ideas in and out of the Low Countries, in diachronic way from the Neolithic into the Late Middle Ages. So far, most attempts to study this mobility remained confined to specific disciplines and restricted historical periods. Combining the strengths of archaeological, historical, anthropological, literary, and geochemical approaches, the LOCO project develops an holistic, complementary and adaptable methodological framework applied across a 7,000- year period, covering both pre-historic and historic times. Situated at the crossroads of human, material, and intellectual exchanges between Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern Europe, the Low Countries provide an ideal case study to test this framework.