Rural Habitation in the Area of the Texuandri (Southern Netherlands/Northern Belgium) ; Habitation rurale dans la région des Texuandri (Pays-Bas du Sud/Belgique du Nord)

International audience ; This study is about Roman rural habitation in an area of some 100 by 100 km in the southern Netherlands and northern Belgium, a region that roughly corresponds to the sandy landscape enclosed by the rivers Meuse, Demer and Scheldt. This ´MDS area´ is the southern-most representative of the series of Pleistocene sandy landscapes which are so characteristic of the Northwest European Plain. In the Roman period the MDS heartland was inhabited by the Texuandri, whose territory is defined on the basis of information from Pliny the Elder and several mentions of the early medi... Mehr ...