Dr Sarah Dalle

Sarah now works as scientific collaborator at Atlantikwall Raversyde museum in Ostend

On Wednesday February 15, 2023 Sarah Dalle successfully defended her thesis “Exposing hidden transitions. Integrating strontium and radiocarbon data from archaeological cremated bone within the Belgian landscape”. The PhD was a joint PhD between Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Guy De Mulder (UG), Prof. Dr. Christophe Snoeck (VUB)

Sarah is currently a post-doctoral research at Ghent University.

I finished my archaeology studies at Ghent University in 2008, specialising in geo-archaeology (landscape science) and protohistory. After a short research project in landscape assessment, I started my career in field archaeology in combination with some science communication projects at the Ename Expertise Center. In commercial archaeology, I gained field experience in different companies (2009-2018) and was several times engaged in business management.

I worked part-time on the Altai Mountains Survey Project, which aims to study and preserve the burial landscapes of the Russian steppe peoples (UG, 2015-2018). It strenghtened my skills in data management and GIS. Since 2013 I kept a strong link with science communication of archaeology to a wider audience through editing and writing for the Belgian archaeology magazine Ex situ and in 2014 by writing exhibition content and a book on the Boudelo Monastery (BE).

My PhD focussed on approaching mobility derived from Sr isotopes from a spatial perspective. My favorite tools are GIS and R but I also love to dive into the lab to prepare the bone samples for Sr measurements. My quest is to observe differences through time in the way people used the landscape to travel.