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Author Peeters, Hans

Title Resurfacing the Submerged Past Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Flevoland Polders, the Netherlands
Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (288 p.)
Contents Intro -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction of the Hanzelijn Archaeological Project -- 1.1 Organisation -- 1.2 The archaeological project -- 1.3 Knowledge Development Program Archaeology Hanzelijn 2012-2020 -- 1.4 Some retrospective remarks -- 1.5 Acknowledgements -- 1.6 In memoriam Dr. Karen E. Waugh -- The cradle of the Swifterbant culture -- 50 years of archaeological investigations in the province of Flevoland -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 History of the polders -- 2.3 Research traditions in the polder -- 2.4 Research topics and approaches
2.5 The positioning of the Swifterbant culture -- 2.6 Archaeology and the public -- 2.7 Conclusions -- Hidden landscapes -- Mapping and evaluating deeply buried remains of human activity -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Climate, sea level rise and the structure of the subsurface -- 3.2.1 Overview of developments -- 3.2.2 Sea-level and groundwater-level rise in Flevoland -- 3.2.3 The structure of the subsurface -- 3.3 The character and quality of archaeological remains -- 3.3.1 Differences in character -- 3.3.2 Differences in preservation -- 3.4 Mapping hidden landscape units
3.4.1 Site versus landscape perspective -- 3.4.2 The practice of field surveys -- 3.5 The identification of sites: on statistics and indicators -- 3.5.1 The statistical uncertainty of sampling -- 3.5.2 Indicators as evidence of the presence of sites -- 3.6 Excavations: windows on the past -- 3.7 Conclusions -- Exploiting a changing landscape: subsistence, habitation and skills -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Taphonomy and analysis: the representativeness and interpretive value of find assemblages -- 4.3 Wild and domesticated mammals as sources of food -- 4.4 Fishing in a drowning landscape
4.5 Birds in the diet -- 4.6 Plant resources in the food economy -- 4.6.1 Wild plants -- 4.6.2 Cultivated crops -- 4.6.3 Cultivation -- 4.7 Food preparation and consumption -- 4.7.1 Animal foods -- 4.7.2 Plant food sources -- 4.7.3 Consumption -- 4.8 Resources and technology -- 4.8.1 Availability of and animal resources -- 4.8.2 Use and selection of plant resources -- 4.8.3 The utilisation of animal resources -- 4.8.4 Origin of lithic materials -- 4.8.5 Use of flint and other lithic material -- 4.8.6 Pottery production -- 4.8.7 Wood tar production? -- 4.9 Habitation patterns -- 4.9.1 Mesolithic
4.9.2 Swifterbant, Pre-Drouwen and Funnel Beaker occupation -- 4.9.3 Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age -- 4.9.4 People on the move -- 4.10 Conclusions -- People, ritual and meaning -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Burial practice -- 5.2.1 Introduction -- 5.2.2 Late Mesolithic and Early Swifterbant -- 5.2.3 Classical Swifterbant and Pre-Drouwen -- 5.2.4 Late Neolithic -- 5.2.5 Conclusions -- 5.3 Other cultural practices with human bones -- 5.4 Depositions -- 5.5 Materiality -- 5.6 Conclusions -- From land to water
Summary The Netherlands are internationally renowned for the archaeology of its wetland environments. The reclamation of the Flevoland Polders in the early half of the 20th century not only exposed hundreds of shipwrecks, but also remnants of prehistoric landscapes and traces of human occupation dating to Mesolithic and Neolithic times. Ultimately, this led to the 'discovery' of the Swifterbant Culture in the 1960s-1970s, and which was initially seen as a Dutch equiva
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Geomorphological, hydrological and ecological developments in Flevoland from the Late Glacial to the end of the Subboreal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Netherlands -- Flevoland
Prehistoric peoples -- Netherlands -- Flevoland
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Excavations (Archaeology)
Prehistoric peoples
SUBJECT Flevoland (Netherlands) -- Antiquities, Prehistoric
Subject Netherlands -- Flevoland
Form Electronic book
Author Kooistra, Laura
Raemaekers, Daan
Smit
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