Palaeohistoria 39,40 (1997-1998)

Palaeohistoria 39,40 (1997-1998)
Author: University of Groningen, Netherlands The Biological-Archaeological Institute
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789054104650

This annual covers excavation reports and analytical studies on archaeology, palaeobotany and archaeozoology. Topics covered include the Allerod vegetation of southeastern Friesland, Bronze Age metal and amber in the Netherlands, the origins of plums and much more.

Archaeology in Confrontation

Archaeology in Confrontation
Author: Hugo Thoen
Publisher: Academia Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789038205786

This collection of papers focuses on the Provincial-Roman archaeology of Northern Gaul, Germany and Britain.

A Living Landscape

A Living Landscape
Author: Stijn Arnoldussen
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2008
Genre: Bronze age
ISBN: 9088900108

Today, half the Netherlands is below sea level. Because of this, water-management is of key importance when it comes to maintaining present-day habitation of the Dutch low-lands. In prehistory, however, large parts of the Dutch landscape were highly dynamic due to ongoing fluvial sedimentation. Vast deltaic areas with ceaseless river activity formed the backdrop against which prehistoric occupation took place. Although such landscapes may seem inhospitable, the often excellently preserved archaeological evidence indicates that people lived in these lowlands throughout prehistory. This book describes why Bronze Age farmers were keen to settle here and how these prehistoric communities structured the landscape around their house-sites at various scales. Using a vast body of evidence from several large-scale excavations in the Dutch river area, the author reconstructs the changes in the cultural landscape over time. Starting from the Middle Neolithic, changing preferences for settlement site locations and changes in domestic architecture are traced in detail to the Iron Age. However, for proper understanding of the cultural landscape, not only settlements but also graves and patterns of object deposition - and their landscape characteristics - are discussed. By using evidence from over 50 major excavations, yielding over 300 house plans, this book contains by far the richest data-set on Dutch Bronze Age settlements. Most of these results have not previously been published in English, making this book of over 500 pages a true academic treasure for an international audience. The in-depth presentation of Bronze Age settlement sites, as well as the critical discussion of models and premises current in later prehistoric settlement archaeology, have an important relevance stretching beyond the Dutch lowland areas on which it is based. The wealth of high-quality Dutch data is presented as a synthesized (yet well-annotated) narrative, that rises above mere site interpretation, even more so due to its landscape-scale focus. Therefore this book is a must-have for those interested in later prehistoric cultural landscapes and settlement archaeology.

Palaeohistoria

Palaeohistoria
Author: Institute of Archaeology
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2020-07-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 100015162X

This book includes a collection of papers, dedicated to Tjalling Waterbolk, on various topics, including palaeobotanical and archaeological research, prehistoric settlement in the province of Drenthe and the coastal areas of Groningen and Friesland, and radiocarbon dating of archaeological samples.

Viator

Viator
Author: Robert L. Benson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1986
Genre:
ISBN: 9780520036086

Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911

Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911
Author: Jan Albert Bakker
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9088900345

In the Introduction, a brief general review is given of the present knowledge and ideas about the Hunebed Builders, who lived some 5000 years ago during the Stone Age.

Taking Archaeology out of Heritage

Taking Archaeology out of Heritage
Author: Laurajane Smith
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527554880

Archaeology has, on the whole, tended to dominate the development of public policies and practices applicable to what is often referred to as “heritage”. This book aims to examine the conflation of heritage with archaeology that has occurred as a result. To do so, it asks whether archaeology can usefully contribute to critical understandings of heritage, which, the volume contends, must consider heritage both in terms of what it is and the cultural, social and political work it does in contemporary societies. Archaeologists have been very successful in protecting what they perceive to be their database—a success that owes much to the development and maintenance of a suite of heritage management practices that work to legitimize their privileged access to, and control of, that database. However, is archaeological data actually heritage? Moreover, does archaeological knowledge offer a meaningful reflection of “the historic environment”, in terms of the uses, values and associations it carries for the various and different communities or publics that engage with that environment/heritage? The volume brings together academic and field archaeologists, academics from heritage studies and community activists from the UK and Europe more generally to debate these issues.

Fens and Bogs in the Netherlands: Vegetation, History, Nutrient Dynamics and Conservation

Fens and Bogs in the Netherlands: Vegetation, History, Nutrient Dynamics and Conservation
Author: Jos T.A. Verhoeven
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401579970

This volume focuses on the geology, land use history, palaeoecology, ecology and conservation of peatlands (fens and bogs) in The Netherlands. The volume provides detailed accounts that, together, give a representative picture of the studies that have been carried out in the Dutch mires over the past 25 years. Contents: Chapter 1: Verhoeven -- Introduction. Chapter 2: Pons -- is a comprehensive geographic and pedological account of peat formation in space and time in the western coastal plain. Chapter 3: Casparia and Streefkerk -- is a detailed description of the various stages of development from fen to bog of the Bourtanger Moor. Chapter 4: Borger and Stol -- details the history of peat draining, digging and dredging in The Netherlands and Flanders. Chapter 5: Barkman -- deals with bog remnants in the eastern Netherlands and northwestern Germany. This chapter also includes data on oligotrophic heath pools which have a vegetation that is similar to that found in bogs. Chapters 6: Den Held; 7: Van Wirdum et al.; 8: Koerselman and Verhoeven -- are chapters on vegetation, synecology and nutrient dynamics of fens and chapter 9: Wiegers -- focuses mainly on terrestrializing fens that are so characteristic of the western Netherlands where they presently occur in turf ponds created by peat dredging in former centuries. Chapter 10: Vermeer and Joosten -- concludes the volume with a treatment of problems with mire conservation and management.

A Mind Set on Flint

A Mind Set on Flint
Author: Dick Stapert
Publisher: Barkhuis
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9491431013

This volume comprises papers presented to Dick Stapert on the occasion of his retirement from the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (University of Groningen) in 2011 and celebrates his scientific career. The contributions cover nearly 300,000 years of Human History and were written by colleagues, former students and friends. Topics include the making and use of fire, children in the Stone Age, spatial analysis, and other themes related to the study of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and beyond.