Dr. Mark Driessen
Mark Driessen graduated at Wageningen University (tropical forestry and agriculture) and worked for many years in Africa and South America. After returning to The Netherlands he started working as a field archaeologist and studied Provincial Roman Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD on the topography, settlement continuity and monumentality of Roman Nijmegen at the same university. He excavated and worked on the Roman harbour of Voorburg-Arentsburg (Forum Hadriani). Since 2011 he is Assistant Professor in Provincial Roman Archaeology at Leiden University. In a joint venture operation with the al-Hussein bin Talal University (Petra-Jordan) Mark Driessen and Fawzi Abudanah are the directors of the Udhruh Archaeological Project, and together with David Breeze of the Qasr Bshir Conservation Project (both in Jordan).
Books by Mark Driessen
Supplying the Roman Empire (LIMES XXV volume 4)
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 4
Edited by Harry van Enckevort, Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray | 2024
This publication – Supplying the Roman Empire – is the fourth volume of the LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings and deals with various aspects of the supply and provisioning of the Roman empire, and the role…
Living and dying on the Roman Frontier and beyond (LIMES XXV volume 3)
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 3
Edited by Harry van Enckevort, Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray | 2024
This publication – Living and Dying on the Roman Frontiers and Beyond – is the third volume of the LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings and deals with a variety of themes, including the iconography of victory;…
Strategy and Structures along the Roman Frontier (LIMES XXV volume 2)
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 2
Edited by Harry van Enckevort, Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray (eds) | 2024
This publication – Strategy and Structures along the Roman Frontiers – is the second volume of the LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings and deals with the following themes: Roman military activities during the Republic; the early…
Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers (LIMES XXV volume 1)
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1
Edited by Harry van Enckevort, Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray | 2024
This publication – Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers – is the first volume of the LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings arranged around the original sessions, in order to form coherent thematical collections that make the vast…
Victims of Violence from the early Roman fort Velsen 1 (Netherlands)
Scenarios for a cold case review
Edited by Mark Driessen and Carol van Driel-Murray | Forthcoming
In 1977, a remarkable discovery was made at the early Roman fort of Velsen (Netherlands): on the bottom of a well lay the skeleton of a man with traumatic injuries. Who was he, how did…
