Delta

Rivierdelta tussen Lemmer en Urk - De Noordoostpolder

by Jan Peeters

Margé Hof - De Noordoostpolder

Meten is weten. Doctorandus Jan Peeters verrichtte vorige week in het kader van zijn promotieonderzoek drie dagen... more Meten is weten. Doctorandus Jan Peeters verrichtte vorige week in het kader van zijn promotieonderzoek drie dagen meetwerk aan de Gemaalweg bij Rutten.Peeters is promovendus aan de Faculteit Geowetenschappen van de Universiteit Utrecht. Hij is bezig met zijn laatste jaar in een vierjarig bodemonderzoek in de Eem-Rijn-delta.De rivierdelta bevond zich volgens Peeters tussen Lemmer en Urk.

New records of vespid wasps from Yemen with synonymy in Belonogaster (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae and Eumeninae)

by James M. Carpenter

Arnoldussen, S., 2008, Appendices to: A Living Landscape. Bronze Age settlement sites in the Dutch river area (c. 2000-800 BC), Leiden.

by stijn arnoldussen

This publication contains the six main appendices to the PhD thesis ‘A Living Landscape. Bronze Age settlement sites... more This publication contains the six main appendices to the PhD thesis ‘A Living Landscape. Bronze Age settlement sites in the Dutch river area (c. 2000-800 BC)’ by Stijn Arnoldussen which was published by Sidestone Press in 2008. That study entails an analysis of the nature (i.e. the constituent components) and dynamics (i.e. diachronic approaches to settlement dynamics) of Bronze Age settlement sites in the Dutch river area. It aims to integrate and synthesize interpretations of Bronze Age settlements based on a number of large-scale excavations in the Dutch river area.

The discussion of the archaeological and geological research histories for these investigated sites, as well as more detailed source criticism and long-term overviews of the occupation histories of six (c. 30 km2) macro-regions around them, could – for sake of conciseness – not be incorporated into the main study’s text. However, such discussions contain critical information necessary to correctly interpret the results of these excavations and to evaluate their representativeness. Therefore, it was decided to make this information available separately in this publication.

While these texts are primarily appendices to the PhD study referred to above, they can be read separately by those who are particularly interested in the results – thus far published nearly exclusively in Dutch – of the excavations at Zijderveld, Rumpt – Eigenblok, Wijk bij Duurstede, Meteren – De Bogen, Lienden – Kesteren or Dodewaard. In addition, the appendices provide a recent overview of the palaeogeographical development and occupation history of six large macro-regions in the Dutch river area. This information may be of relevance to those studying other sites within these macro-regions for the period under study (c. 2000-800 BC)

S. Arnoldussen, 2008, A Living Landscape: Bronze Age settlement sites in the Dutch river area (c. 2000-800 BC), Leiden (PhD thesis, 536p)

by stijn arnoldussen

Today, half of the Netherlands is situated below sea level. Because of this, water-management is of key importance... more Today, half of the Netherlands is situated below sea level. Because of this, water-management is of key importance when it comes to maintaining present-day habitation of the Dutch low-lands. In prehistory, however, large parts of the Dutch landscape were highly dynamic due to ongoing fluvial sedimentation. Vast deltaic areas with ceaseless river activity formed the backdrop against which prehistoric occupation took place. Although such landscapes may seem inhospitable, the often excellently preserved archaeological evidence indicates that people lived in these lowlands throughout prehistory.

This book describes why Bronze Age farmers were keen to settle here and how these prehistoric communities structured the landscape around their house-sites at various scales. Using a vast body of evidence from several large-scale excavations in the Dutch river area, the author, reconstructs the changes in the cultural landscape over time. Starting from the Middle Neolithic, changing preferences for settlement site locations and changes in domestic architecture are traced in detail to the Iron Age. However, for proper understanding of the cultural landscape, not only settlements but also graves and patterns of object deposition – and their landscape characteristics – are discussed.

By using evidence of over 50 major excavations, yielding over 300 house plans, this book contains by far the richest data-set on Dutch Bronze Age settlements. Most of these results were not before published in English, making this book of over 500 pages a true academic treasure for an international audience.

The in-depth presentation of Bronze Age settlement sites, as well as the critical discussion of models and premises current in later prehistoric settlement archaeology, have an important relevance stretching beyond the Dutch lowland areas on which it is based. The wealth of high-quality Dutch data is presented as a synthesized (yet well-annotated) narrative, that rises above mere site interpretation, even more so due to its landscape-scale focus. Therefore this book is a must-have for those interested in later prehistoric cultural landscapes and settlement archaeology.

Recent morphodynamics of the Indus delta shore and shelf

by Peter Clift

Arkansas Atlantis: The Lost Town of Napoleon

by Michael Hammond

Sedimentology and development of barrier islands, ebb-tidal deltas, inlets and backbarrier areas of the Dutch Wadden Sea

by Poppe de Boer

Albert P. Oost & Poppe L. de Boer (1994)

Senckenbergiana maritima 24, 65-115.

This paper presents an overview of the Dutch Wadden Sea from a sedimentological point of view. After the pioneering... more This paper presents an overview of the Dutch Wadden Sea from a sedimentological point of view. After the pioneering work of scientists new impulses to this kind of research are being given by the need for detailed recent analogues of fossil hydrocarbon-containing rock successions and by the great concern about the future of our coastline in relation to accelerated sea-level rise. After many studies of a descriptive nature in the past, there is now a growing tendency so a more dynamical view to the Wadden Sea system. There is a strong interdependence between various tidal sub-environments within individual inlet systems. Together these sub-environments form so-called Sand Sharing Systems, whose behaviour is largely defined by the tidal prism and the wave climate. Such a dynamical approach may greatly facilitate the research and understanding o fossil barrier-related sediments. Apart from the physical processes the abundant biota plays also an important role in the sedimentological development of the Wadden Sea. The large amount of data on the development of the Wadden Sea in pre-historical and historical times, moreover, allows to test hypotheses about the evolution of the system on the scale of centuries to millennia.