Check out our new LEAP video

March, 2026

Our new LEAP project video ‘Peat, Bones, and Speleothems - Exploring ancient climate change and human mobility in Belgium’ is now online!

First LEAP article published

January, 2026

The first LEAP article is out! A child’s jawbone discovered years ago in the Grotte de On is helping researchers from LEAP tell a new story about prehistoric life in Belgium.

We have a new colleague, welcome Dr. Elliot Van Maldegem!

November, 2025

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Elliot Van Maldegem (VUB) to the LEAP team.

Sampling human remains at the Société archéologique de Namur

October, 2025

Recently, Hannah Leonard (VUB), Christophe Snoeck (VUB), and Giacomo Capuzzo (KIK-IRPA), have sampled the Bronze Age human remains from the Trou del Leuve (Sinsin), a burial cave excavated by the Société archéologique de Namur. 

Behind the scenes with LEAP: new video series coming soon

September, 2025

Over the past few months, Stijn Pardon and Siska Van Parys from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have been capturing the LEAP team in action

Musée du Malgré-Tout to sample two mandibles

June, 2025

PhD Hannah Leonard and supervisor Christophe Snoeck for the VUB have recently visited the Musée du Malgré-Tout

Team-building in Han-sur-Lesse

October, 2024

The team of the LEAP project recently participated in a two-day team-building event

Cremations in Archaeology Conference (CIA 2024)

May, 2024

Hannah Leonard, Giacomo Capuzzo, and Christophe Snoeck participated (CIA 2024) 

Presenting our first results at the ClimPast 2024 conference in Bern!

June, 2024

Giacomo Capuzzo and Possum Pincé were excited to present the LEAP Project.

Interview with one of our researchers for International Women's Rights Day

April 11, 2024

Check out an interview with dr. Possum Pincé, one of the researchers in the LEAP-project.

Fieldwork in the Hotton Cave

January 15, 2024

On 7th of April 2023, a speleothem core was taken in a flowstone in the non-touristic part of the Hotton cave.

LEAP website is launched

January 15, 2024

The LEAP website is live!

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