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Between Foraging and Farming: An Extended Broad Spectrum of Papers Presented to Leendeert Louwe Kooijmans

edited by Harry Fokkens, Bryony J Coles, Annelou L van Gijn, Jos P Kleijne, Hedwig H Ponjee and Corijanne G Slappendel

For a long time Leendert Louwe Kooijmans has been the face of Dutch prehistory in a European context. This volume contains twenty-three papers on the Mesolithic and Neolithic presented to him by his Dutch and European colleagues and marks his ongoing process of retiring. 286p (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 40, Leiden: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University 2008)

Table of Contents

0. Preface; 1. Leo Verhart - Jan Hendrik Holwerda and the adoption of the tree-age system in the Netherlands; 2. Harry Fokkens - The temporality of culture changes; 3. Alex Bayliss, Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy - Timing, tempo and temporalities in the early Neolithic of southern Britain; 4. Richard Bradley - The end of the beginning: changing configurations in the British and Irish Neolithic; 5. Peter Bogucki - The Danubian-Baltic borderland: Northern Poland in the fifth millennium BC; 6. Søren H. Andersen - The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Western Denmark seen from a kitchen midden perspective: a survey; 7. Philippe Crombé, Joris Sergant - Tracing the Neolithic in the lowlands of Belgium: the evidence from sandy Flanders; 8. Bart Vanmontfort - A southern view on north-south interaction during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Lower Rhine area; 9. Pieter van de Velde - The foam that flies ahead of the wave of advance: thoughts on the early neolithisation of the Lower Rhine uplands; 10. Corrie Bakels - Maastricht-Vogelzang, the Netherlands, a Michelsberg site in the valley of the Meuse seen from a botanical angle; 11. W. Haio Zimmermann - Phosphate mapping of a Funnel Beaker Culture house from Flögeln-Eekhöltjen, district of Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony; 12. Daan Raemaekers - The Schipluiden pottery: mobility, exchange and mode of production; 13. Luc Amkreutz, Leo Verhart, Milco Wansleeben - Hazendonk layers over and over again; 14. Welmoed Out - The scale of human impact at the Hazendonk, the Netherlands, during the Late Neolithic; 15. Luc Amkreutz, Raymond Corbey - An eagle-eyed perspective. Haliaeetus albicilla in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Lower Rhine area; 16. Bryony Coles - Were beavers aware? A change of perspective on the neolithisation of Britain; 17. Annelou van Gijn - Exotic flint and the negotiation of a new identity in the ‘margins’ of the agricultural world: the case of the Rhine-Meuse delta; 18. Gabriel Cooney - Engaging with stone: making the Neolithic in Ireland and Western Britain; 19. Marjorie de Grooth - Points of contact: reflections on Bandkeramik-Mesolithic interactions west of the Rhine; 20. Julie Gardener - On the production of discoidal flint knives and changing patters of specialist flint procurement in the Neolithic on the South Downs, England; 21. Alison Sheridan - Upper Largie and Dutch-Scottish connections during the Beaker period; 22. Pierre Pétrequin, Alison Sheridan, Serge Cassen, Michel Errera, Estelle Gauthier, Lutz Klassen, Nicolas Le Maux, Yvan Pailler - Neolithic alpine axeheads, from the continent to Great Britain, the Isle of Man and Ireland; 23. Jan Albert Bakker - A note on prehistoric routes on the Veluwe and near Uelzen.

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