Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 1-1 (May 2009)

The agency factor in the process of Neolithisation – a Dutch case study1

Leendert P. Louwe Kooijmans

Keywords: Neolithisation, agency, wetland archaeology, Rhine-Meuse delta, Delfland.


Abstract
1 Neolithisation in the Low Countries
1.1 The problem
2 The Delfland region, the genesis of a landscape 4300-3300 BC (fig. 2)
3 The sites
4 Chronology 2
5 The settlement system
5.1 Wateringen 4 and Wateringse Veld
5.2 Wateringen 4 versus Ypenburg
5.3 Wateringen 4 and Ypenburg versus Schipluiden
5.4 Structure and agency
6 Subsistence
6.1 Hunting and stock keeping
6.2 Fowling
6.3 Fishing
6.4 Arable farming and gathering
6.5 Conclusion
7 Treatment of the dead
8 Deposition
9 Material culture
10 Retrospective
Acknowledgements
Notes
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