Schipluiden
A neolithic settlement on the Dutch North Sea coast c. 3500 CAL BC
Edited by Leendert P. Louwe Kooijmans & Peter F.B. Jongste | 2013
The Schipluiden site is a unique document for a crucial phase in the neolithisation process of the Lower Rhine Area. The rescue excavation profited from available funding for a full recovery of the site by…

Transformation through Destruction
A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen
edited by David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof & Richard Jansen | 2013
Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event in the life of local communities, for he received an…

Beyond Barrows
Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments
edited by David Fontijn, Arjan Louwen, Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof & Karsten Wentink | 2013
Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists…

Volgens Kapitein Bellen
Archeologie, folklore en wichelarij op de Veluwe en in Drenthe
Henk M. Luning | 2013
In de eerste helft van de 20ste eeuw was de naam van kapitein Hendrik Joseph Bellen onlosmakelijk verbonden met de Veluwse en Drentse heidevelden. Vooral in de alom aanwezige zandverstuivingen en nieuwe ontginningen deed hij…

Monuments on the Horizon
The formation of the barrow landscape throughout the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC
Quentin Bourgeois | 2013
Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe. In some regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations such as long alignments while in others they are spread out extensively, dotting vast areas with…

Lake Dwellings after Robert Munro
Proceedings from the Munro International Seminar: The Lake Dwellings of Europe 22nd and 23rd October 2010, University of Edinburgh
Edited by Magdalena S. Midgley and Jeff Sanders | 2012
Dr Robert Munro (1835-1920) was a distinguished medical practitioner who, in his later life, became a keen archaeologist. His particular interests lay in the lake-dwelling settlements of his native Scotland, known as crannogs, as well…

From primitives to primates
A history of ethnographic and primatological analogies in the study of prehistory
David Van Reybrouck | 2012
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th…

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Schipluiden
A neolithic settlement on the Dutch North Sea coast c. 3500 CAL BC
Edited by Leendert P. Louwe Kooijmans & Peter F.B. Jongste | 2013
The Schipluiden site is a unique document for a crucial phase in the neolithisation process of the Lower Rhine Area. The rescue excavation profited from available funding for a full recovery of the site by…

Transformation through Destruction
A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen
edited by David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof & Richard Jansen | 2013
Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event in the life of local communities, for he received an…

Beyond Barrows
Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments
edited by David Fontijn, Arjan Louwen, Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof & Karsten Wentink | 2013
Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists…

Volgens Kapitein Bellen
Archeologie, folklore en wichelarij op de Veluwe en in Drenthe
Henk M. Luning | 2013
In de eerste helft van de 20ste eeuw was de naam van kapitein Hendrik Joseph Bellen onlosmakelijk verbonden met de Veluwse en Drentse heidevelden. Vooral in de alom aanwezige zandverstuivingen en nieuwe ontginningen deed hij…

Monuments on the Horizon
The formation of the barrow landscape throughout the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC
Quentin Bourgeois | 2013
Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe. In some regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations such as long alignments while in others they are spread out extensively, dotting vast areas with…

Lake Dwellings after Robert Munro
Proceedings from the Munro International Seminar: The Lake Dwellings of Europe 22nd and 23rd October 2010, University of Edinburgh
Edited by Magdalena S. Midgley and Jeff Sanders | 2012
Dr Robert Munro (1835-1920) was a distinguished medical practitioner who, in his later life, became a keen archaeologist. His particular interests lay in the lake-dwelling settlements of his native Scotland, known as crannogs, as well…

From primitives to primates
A history of ethnographic and primatological analogies in the study of prehistory
David Van Reybrouck | 2012
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th…

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