Overview

This book is about how local communities in prehistory, by shaping their landscape, carved out a place for themselves in a big social world that stretched out far beyond the landscape they lived and worked in.

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Author:   Corrie C. Bakels ,  Quentin P.J Bourgeois ,  David R. Fontijn ,  Richard Jansen
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
Volume:   49
ISBN:  

9789088907470

ISBN 10:   9088907471
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   20 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Social memories and site biographies: construction and perception in non-literate societies Johannes Muller The Dutch abroad? Interpreting the distribution of the 'beaker' culture John C. Barrett Early Bronze Age boat graves in the British Isles Richard Bradley The nature of a Bronze Age World Anthony Harding A triangular Middle Bronze Age trade system of amber, copper and tin 1500-1300 BC Kristian Kristiansen, Johan Ling Wetland knowledges: resource specialization and denial Christopher Evans Maintaining fertility of Bronze Age arable land in the northwest Netherlands Corrie Bakels Bronze Age ancestral communities - new research of Middle Bronze Age burials in the barrow landscapes of Apeldoorn-Wieselseweg David Fontijn, Arjan Louwen, Quentin Bourgeois, Liesbeth Smits, Cristian van der Linde And the river meanders on... The intertwined habitation and vegetation history of the river area Maaskant and adjacent sand area of Oss (Netherlands) in Late Prehistory till Early Roman Period Richard Jansen, Corrie Bakels Metal surprises from an Iron Age cemetery in Nijmegen-Noord Peter W. van den Broeke, Emile Eimermann

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Richard Jansen is fulltime lecturer in Applied Archaeology and European Prehistory at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden. Between 2008 and 2018 he also was the municipal-archaeologist of Oss. His (PhD-)research focuses on the long-term structuring of the (settlement) landscape from the late prehistory until the Roman Period, especially on the extensively researched sandy soils of Oss, but also within the larger MSD-region.

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