This collection of papers was compiled in celebration of the remarkable academic career of Professor Wil Roebroeks, who has established himself as one of Europe’s leading figures in Palaeolithic archaeology over the past three decades and founded the Human origins research group at Leiden University. The volume features a diverse array of chapters contributed by close colleagues, as well as former and current students, providing a thorough overview of the flourishing field of Palaeolithic a...

Pile dwellings have been explored over a vast region for a number of decades now. This has led to the development of different ways, methods, and even schools of under-water and peat-bog excavation practices and data analysis techniques under the influence of different research traditions in individual countries. On the one hand, these and other factors can limit our understanding of the past, whilst on the other hand they can also open up further avenues of interpretation.

By collecting the ...

Multimodality – the integration of different semiotic resources in communication – plays a key role in the way people convey meaning. While much of the research has focused on multimodal communication in modern European and Anglo-Saxon cultures, the diverse visual and textual compositions of ancient civilizations have been less explored.

This book presents the findings of a working group on multimodal communication in Ancient Egypt and explores the multimodal nature of Egyptian artifacts...

This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 – 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large scale constructions, built with large, unwieldy blocks, may have overstretched the (economic) capabilities of communities, leading to their collapse.

In order to determine the labour costs, the building process is deconstructed and for each sub-process, the costs are determined. The co...

This work deals with topics related to mobility, contacts and transmission of knowledge. The study of these topics regarding the past can promote an understanding of the social implications of migration, communication and learning today through long-term perspectives of change. This volume focuses on these topics in the Mesolithic by analysing a specialised lithic concept known previously from Scandinavia and Northern Germany. The implementation of the Handle Core Pressure Concept (HCPC) is b...

Fossiele eiken, veen- of bostoponiemen, Romeinse houtskoolmeilers, wildforstersgoederen, kogelpotten, relieken en bescherming van het landschap: in De logica van het landschap geven 31 artikelen samen een beeld van het brede werkterrein van de archeologie en landschapsgeschiedenis. De auteurs zijn archeologen of onderzoekers uit aanpalende vakgebieden. Ze schrijven over de archeologie van Oost-Nederland en Limburg, over bossen en bosgeschiedenis, veengebieden en zandlandschappen, maar ook ove...

Nederland heeft een rijk maritiem verleden. Eeuwenlang vormden rivieren en zeeën de geografische contouren van ons land. De mogelijkheid om te varen was voor veel mensen bittere noodzaak en vormde de economische, sociale en culturele ruggengraat van de samenleving. In de bodem en onder water liggen de stille getuigen van dit verleden: scheepswrakken, verspreid over heel Nederland – van prehistorische boomstamboten tot moderne vrachtschepen.

Gezonken erfgoed vertelt de Nederlandse geschieden...

Tussen 5.000 en 10.000 jaar geleden vond de Neolithische landbouwrevolutie plaats en werd de jager-verzamelaar meer en meer boer die van een nomadisch bestaan overging naar een vaste nederzetting. Het zijn ‘vluchtige gestaltes’ waar we weinig van weten.

Zo’n ‘vluchtige gestalte’ is voor auteur Hein Klompmaker de groep boeren die meer dan 5000 jaar geleden besloten hunebedden te bouwen. De vraag of je deze groep boeren als het ware ‘tot leven zou kunnen wekken’ heeft hem niet me...

By applying a fieldwork-based, geoarchaeological approach, Tourloukis examines in this study the evidence from Greece within the framework of the earliest occupation of Europe. Although the Greek Peninsula lies within a core area of early hominin movements between Africa and Europe but also within Eurasia itself, the Lower Palaeolithic record of Greece remains as yet extremely poor.

Choosing the scanty Greek record as a case-study, Tourloukis elaborates on a hitherto largely overlooked subjec...