Contents Volume I
Preface
Introductory
Chapter 1. A prehistory of our time
Peter van den Broeke, Harry Fokens and Annelou van Gijn
Chapter 2. The discovery of prehistory in the Netherlands
Ayolt Brongers
Chapter 3. Shaped by water, ice and wind: the genesis of the Netherlands
Kier van Gijssel and Bert van der Valk
Part I. Hunters and Gatherers
Chapter 4. Paleolithic and Mesolithic: introduction
Wil Roebroeks and Annelou van Gijn
Chapter 5. Neanderthals and their predecessors
Lower and Middle Paleolithic
Wil Roebroeks
Chapter 6. The first 'modern' humans
Upper Paleolithic
Eelco Rensink and Dick Stapert
Feature A. A lost craft: flint tool manufacture in prehistory
Jaap Beuker
Chapter 7. From tundra hunting to forest hunting
Later Upper Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic
Jos Deeben and Nico Arts
Feature B. A Drowned Land
Mesolithic from the North Sea floor
Leo Verhart
Chapter 8. Living in abundance
Middle and Late Mesolithic
Leo Verhart and Henny Groenendijk
Feature C. Mesolithic along the Overijssel Vecht
Camp sites and burial pits at Marienberg
Ad Verlinde
Feature D. Hunting camps in the swamps
The river dunes near Hardinxveld
Leendert Louwe Kooijmans
Chapter 9. Hunters and gatherers: synthesis
Jos Deeben and Annelou van Gijn
Part II. The first farmers
Chapter 10. Early and Middle Neolithic: introduction
Annelou van Gijn and Leendert Louwe Kooijmans
Chapter 11. Colonists on the loess?
Early Neolithic A: the Bandkeramik culture
Marjorie de Grooth and Pieter van de Velde
Feature E. Mines in the marl
The flint extraction at Rijckholt
Marjorie de Grooth
Chapter 12. Hunters become farmers
Early Neolithic B and Middle Neolithic A
Leendert Louwe Kooijmans
Feature F. Stone Age farmers along the North Sea
The Rijswijk-Ypenburg cemetery
Hans Koot
Feature G. Import from all quarters
Stone axes in the northern Netherlands
Jaap Beuker
Chapter 13. Megalith builders and sturgeon fishers
Middle Neolithic B: Funnel Beaker culture and the Vlaardingen group
Annelou van Gijn and Jan Albert Bakker
Feature H. Funerary buildings from erratic boulders
The construction and function of the hunebedden
Jan Albert Bakker
Chapter 14. The fruits of the land
Neolithic subsistence
Corrie Bakels and Jorn Zeiler
Chapter 15. The first farmers: synthesis
Annelou van Gijn and Leendert Louwe Kooijmans
Part III. Mixed farming societies
Chapter 16. Late Neolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age: introduction
Harry Fokkens
Chapter 17. From stone to bronze
Technology and material culture
Jay Butler and Harry Fokkens
Fearure I. Opening up the peat bogs
The timber trackways of Drenthe
Wil Casparie
Chapter 18. Longhouses in unsettled settlements
Settlements in Beaker period and Bronze Age
Harry Fokkens
Feature J. Shell fishers and cattle herders
Settlements of the Single Grave culture in Westfrisia
Wilem Jan Hogestijn
Chapter 19. Mounds for the dead
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