Re: Wetland exploitation of Prehistoric Communities

Peter Alaca wrote: news:44f17972$0$18013$dbd4b001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Louwe Kooijmans, L.P. 1993
"Wetland exploitation and upland relations of
prehistoric communities in the Netherlands"
http://tinyurl.com/hnbow [46pp, 4.4Mb]
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Louwe Kooijmans. L.P (1993)
"The Mesolithic/Neolithic Transformation in the
Lower Rhine Basin"
http://tinyurl.com/qltm9 [51pp, 3.8Mb]


Daan Raemaekers (2002)
"Cutting a long story short? The process of
neolithization in the Dutch delta re-examined."
Antiquity 2003, vol. 77(298):740-748

The transition from an existence based on
hunting and gathering to a farming way of life
has been one of the major research topics of
archaeology world wide ever since the days of
Gordon V. Childe's agricultural revolution.
This process of neolithization is traditionally
perceived as one of the major steps in human
cultural live.
In the case of north-western Europe, the stage
is set by the intrusion of farmers of the
Linearbandkeramik (LBK) around 5300 BC.
Thanks to excellent wetland preservation in the
delta part of the Netherlands, the transition to
farming is relatively well documented.

This essay questions the traditional view that
the process of neolithization was extremely
slow and covered many centuries, using
material gathered from a group of excavated
sites

The pdf http://tinyurl.com/o2vuk is only available
to subscribers to Antiquity but the complete
article is also on skadi.net
http://forum.skadi.net/printthread.php?t=54265

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