Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape
Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape

Author: Peter Vos

Publisher: Barkhuis

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9492444429

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The topic of this book is the Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape during the Holocene. ­ The landscape evolution is visualized in series of palaeogeographical maps and the driving mechanisms behind the environmental changes are discussed. The practice to make palaeogeographical map reconstructions in the Netherlands developed after the Second World War when a lot of regional geological and soil scientific mapping programs were carried out by government institutions and universities. These maps show when and how the surveyed sediments were formed. The palaeogeographical map reconstructions are subsequently used for the understanding and modeling of the long-term coastal evolution, coastal-management issues, landscape-archaeological purposes and for education and public information reasons. Geoarchaeological investigations play an important role in this study. Geological and palaeo-environmental data from archaeological excavations (‘key sites') provided essential information for the palaeolandscape reconstructions. In the presented regional- and local-case studies of this book, examples of these sites are shown.

Atlas of the Holocene Netherlands
Atlas of the Holocene Netherlands

Author: Peter Vos

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789463724432

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The landscape of the Netherlands has been changing constantly since the end of the last ice age, some 11,700 years ago. Where we walk today was once a polar desert, a river delta or a shallow sea. The end of the last ice age marked the beginning of a new geological period - the Holocene, the relatively warm geological epoch in which we are still living today. The Atlas of the Holocene Netherlands contains special maps, supplemented by archaeological and historical information. These maps show the geographical situation for thirteen different points in time since the last ice age, based on tens of thousands of drill samples and the latest geological, soil and archaeological research. This magnificent atlas also paints a surprising picture of the position we humans have occupied in the landscape. It addresses such questions as: How did we take advantage of the opportunities offered by the landscape? And how did we mould the landscape to suit our own purposes? The Atlas of the Holocene Netherlands will change once and for all the way you look at the Dutch landscape.

Waddenland Outstanding
Waddenland Outstanding

Author: Linde Egberts

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789462986602

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5 The Wadden Sea: A natural landscape outside the dikesHans-Ulrich Rösner; 6 The North Frisians and the Wadden Sea; Thomas Steensen; Part 3 Memory, mentality and landscape; 7 Victory over the sea; Dutch diking techniques in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their impact on Europe's history of mentality; Ludwig Fischer; 8 Between National Socialist ideology and resistance; Interpretations of artworks depicting the Wadden Sea; Nina Hinrichs; 9 Living with water in the Tøndermarsk and Gotteskoog; Anne Marie Overgaard; 10 Remystifying Frisia.

The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Author: Andrea Kiss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0429956835

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This volume investigates environmental and political crises that occurred in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, and considers their effects on people’s lives. At this time, the fragile human existence was imagined as a ‘Dance of Death’, where anyone, regardless of social status or age, could perish unexpectedly. This book covers events ranging from cooling temperatures and the onset of the Little Ice Age, to the frequent occurrence of epidemic disease, pest infestations, food shortages and famines. Covering the mid-fourteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays considers a range of countries between Iceland (to the north), Italy (to the south), France (to the west) and the westernmost parts of Russia (to the east). This wide-reaching volume considers how deeply climate variability and changes affected and changed society in the late medieval to early modern period, and asks what factors, other than climate, interfered in the development of environmental stress and socio-economic crises. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Environmental and Climate History, Environmental Humanities, Medieval and Early Modern History and Historical Geography, as well as Climate Change and Environmental Sciences.

Reconstructing vegetation diversity in coastal landscapes
Reconstructing vegetation diversity in coastal landscapes

Author: Mans Schepers

Publisher: Barkhuis

Published: 2014-12-31

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 949244433X

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This dissertation delves into the reconstruction of past vegetation at the most detailed level. It is not the objective to focus solely on the developments in vegetation over time, but to create an image of the landscape that must have been visible to prehistoric people. Landscape and vegetation form a major starting point for the opportunities available in a certain area for a broad scale of human activities including grazing of livestock, cultivating crops and collecting wild plants. The majority of the analyses are based on seeds and fruits (botanical macroremains) from two Dutch prehistoric regions. These are the small river system in the present Flevopolder, home to settlements of the so-called Swifterbant Culture in the Neolithic period (4300 ? 4000 BC), and the Frisian-Groningen terp region in the period prior to the endikements (700 BC ? c. 1200 AD).

DUTCH LANDSCAPE ETCHERS OF THE
DUTCH LANDSCAPE ETCHERS OF THE

Author: William Aspenwall 1878-1939 Bradley

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781374636408

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Waddenland Outstanding
Waddenland Outstanding

Author: Linde Egberts

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9789048537884

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The Wadden Sea Region is comprised of the embanked coastal marshes and islands in the Wadden Sea near Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands, and this area retains an exceptional common history in all its aspects: archaeologically, economically, socially, and culturally. Its settlement history of more than two thousand years is unrivalled and still mirrored in the landscape and even though it has never constituted a political unity, it still shares a landscape and cultural heritage. For example, the approaches to water management and associated societal organisation developed in the region during the last millennium have set significant world standards, values which were recognised by UNESCO in inscribing the Wadden Sea on its World Heritage List. This book encompasses the contributions presented at the scientific symposium of prominent scientists who gathered in 2016 in Husum, Germany, a landmark event in sharing knowledge on the common history, landscape, cultural heritage of the Wadden Sea Region.