Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communities placed in set-a-side ritual landscapes, but were instead central to existence in many ways. This study of the Rother Region, where the Weald meets the Wessex massif, reports the results of the People of the Heath project, 2014–18. It integrates a wealth of data from comprehensive field study of all relevant sites in the region with that from e...

Deze bundel vormt de neerslag van de 8e Nederlandse (digitale) metaaltijdendag gehouden op 9 oktober 2020. Op die dag werden – door de corona maatregelen in aangepaste vorm – lezingen gehouden over diverse onderwerpen aangaande de brons- en ijzertijdgemeenschappen van de Lage landen, aangevuld met een groot aantal bijdragen over het centrale thema van dat jaar “Eten en drinken in de metaaltijden”. De eerste drie artikelen bespreken dan ook prehistorische akkers in Noorderboekert, het ...

Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much has been written about this, and research and discussion about ritual killing continue. This book offers contributions to this on-going discussion, by a re-evaluation of the term human sacrifice, arguing that not all forms of ritual killing can be considered to be sacrificial.

Experts from different dis...

Deze bundel vormt de neerslag van de 8e Nederlandse (digitale) metaaltijdendag gehouden op 9 oktober 2020. Op die dag werden – door de corona maatregelen in aangepaste vorm – lezingen gehouden over diverse onderwerpen aangaande de brons- en ijzertijdgemeenschappen van de Lage landen, aangevuld met een groot aantal bijdragen over het centrale thema van dat jaar “Eten en drinken in de metaaltijden”. De eerste drie artikelen bespreken dan ook prehistorische akkers in Noorderboekert, het ...

In 2015 at Dalfsen (the Netherlands) archaeologists made an amazing discovery. They found a burial ground dating from the TRB-period (3000-2750 BC) comprising 141 burial pits. The TRB is dated in the last phase of the Middle Neolithic period and is well known for its megalithic monuments which are widespread through large parts of northern Europe.

Until recently few non-megalithic burial grounds were known and the find of the Dalfsen burials created new opportunities to study the mortuary rit...

Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship.

The People have ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential c...

Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communities placed in set-a-side ritual landscapes, but were instead central to existence in many ways. This study of the Rother Region, where the Weald meets the Wessex massif, reports the results of the People of the Heath project, 2014–18. It integrates a wealth of data from comprehensive field study of all relevant sites in the region with that from e...

Dit publieksboek (3de druk) vertelt het verhaal van één van de belangrijkste, maar minst bekende archeologische vindplaatsen van Europa: Doggerland. Slechts weinigen weten dat onze stranden aan de rand liggen van een enorm verdwenen landschap. Een prehistorische wereld die bijna een miljoen jaar menselijke bewoning documenteert en die gedurende het grootste deel van die tijd droog lag.

Het is de plek waar meer dan 900.000 jaar geleden de eerste voetstappen van vroege mensachtigen in Noord-...

This book brings together 30 papers by leading scholars in the field of usewear and residue analysis. This publication aims to revive the debate on the role of traceology (use-wear and residues) in multidisciplinary approaches that address archaeological questions. Many studies on technological aspects of material culture deal with specific material categories (e.g. flint, ceramics, bone), often in separate or isolated ways, and this division does not really reflect the integrated nature of t...

The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming’s memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with stalactites, the limits to ocean exploitation, ocean climate change, prehistoric settlements on the continental shelf, ocean law, and safe scientific diving. Flemming is paralysed from the chest down and has used a wheelchair for the past 52 years; o...