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📢Discover the #keynote speakers for #ICAP2025.⏩ and submit your abstract quickly!.

📸Live from @StadBrugge City Archive: Together with @vioe, @MuseaBrugge & @artinflanders we are making a new HR photographs of Pieter Claeissens' painted copy-#map of the Liberty of #Bruges (1601). 🗺️3000km² of late #medieval #landscape soon at your disposal, in full detail!

🔍 At a broader level, this paper highlights the delicate balance between human activity, livestock, and coastal environments. It contributes to the understanding of how such #taskscapes were integrated into regional land use and shaped the historical landscape we observe today.

🗺️For Map Historians, this case-study validated the topographical accuracy of Pieter Pourbus’ painted map. Not only is it designed with advanced methods (, also its topographic content is a treasure throve of undiscovered archaeological sites. (7/8)

🌊 Environmental historians will find a compelling case study of how the advancing embankments and land reclamation efforts gradually reduced the tidal landscapes, marginalised the sheep-related taskscape & pushed the socio-economic decline of local sheep-husbandry. (6/8)

🐏From a landscape historical perspective, one key insight is the recurrent tripartite spatial organization that governed animal husbandry in the coastal plain, consisting of: .1⃣ Parent farms .2⃣Droveways.3⃣ Satellite dwelling mounds.(5/8)

🏺 Crucial takeaways for archaeological #survey are:.1⃣The reconfirmation ( that surface artefact clusters provide valuable intra-site information. 2⃣The insight that artefact clusters can also contribute to the functional interpretation of a site. (4/8)

⚙️The interdisciplinary approach used in this study combines: surface ceramics, historical maps, aerial photos, LiDAR, geophysical surveys & coring to uncover the remnants of a sheep mound. Evidence ranges from microtopographic changes to artefact clusters of milk bowls. (3/8)

🌍 Located in the Belgian coastal plain, the ‘Scaperie’ site offers a fascinating window into late #medieval land use & animal husbandry, revealed through a 16th-C. painted map. What can this site tell us about human-environment interactions along the North Sea coast? (2/8)

📢For those interested in #RuralHistory, #EnvironmentalHistory, #LandscapeArchaeology, #ArchaeologicalSurvey & #MapHistory, our new paper “Marginal Mounds and Maritime Shepherding” @JnlWetlandArch covers all those topics. 👉Check it out 🧵below (1/8).

Finally, the #animation produced by #SeeYouBaby for the #exhibition 'Pieter Pourbus - Master of Maps' @MuseaBrugge (Dutch with French/English subs), in which Pourbus' survey method is explained for a broader audience, is now available on (7/7).

Read more in "Illuminating Sixteenth-century Measuring Methods and Map Design: New.Findings from Pieter Pourbus’ Chorographic Maps" published #OpenAccess in the #Cartographic Journal: This #postdoc research is funded by BOF @ugent & @FWOVlaanderen. (6/7).

Traces in the underdrawings of his other maps, such as squaring grids, pounced dots, and map inserts, show how Pourbus compiled and copied maps with remarkable accuracy. These insights shed light on the technical expertise behind 16th C. cartographic practices & map design. (5/7)

These traces for the first time provide solid evidence that triangulation was indeed used in the 16th century to make #chorographic maps. Moreover, Pourbus' methodology proofs to be a meticulous application of Gemma Frisius' theories and manual, first published in 1533. (4/7)

A new macroscopic and #GIS-integrated analysis of Pourbus’ maps, particularly his map of Cadzand, uncovers previously unseen traces of the #survey and map-design process in the underdrawing: compass circles with perforations, and incised meridians, parallels and bearings. (3/7)

Pourbus' maps have long intrigued researchers. Their topographic and planimetric accuracy led some to assume he used #triangulation methods. However, the use of such techniques to make large-scale maps is generally thought to have begun only in the 17th century . (2/7)

Finally out: new research on Pieter #Pourbus, a mid-16th-century artist and mapmaker, who produced highly accurate maps of the coastal area around Bruges (Belgium). How did he achieve such a precision? Find out in this 🧵or in the 📰👇 #MapHistory #cartography (1/7)