Recent developments in Dutch archaeology

Slofstra, Jan

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“…It was characterised by a processual orientation, which clearly gained importance in Dutch archaeology (Slofstra 1994). It was characterised by a processual orientation, which clearly gained importance in Dutch archaeology (Slofstra 1994).…”

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The South Netherlands project

Roymans¹

1996

Arch. Dial.

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This article discusses the development of the research strategy of the South Netherlands project conducted by the Instituut voor Pre- en Protohistorische Archeologie (IPP) of the University of Amsterdam. Its general objective is the study of long-term transformations in landscape and culture between ca 1000 B.C. and 1200 A.D. in the flat sandy region of the southern Netherlands and the adjacent part of northern Belgium. This area of ca 100 by 140 km is roughly bordered by the rivers Meuse, Demer and Scheldt (= MDS-region; see figure 1). The project has a history which started in the early 1970s. It evolved out of the ‘Kempenproject’ of the IPP and the Archeologisch Instituut van de Vrije Universiteit (AIVU) at Amsterdam. At present it is a major research programme of the IPP, with each year several large excavations dispersed over the region, but with a concentration in the south-eastern half of the province of North-Brabant (figure 1).

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“…T h e 231 developments sketched should be understood against t h e background of the general trends in Dutch archeology in the post-war period, as described by Slofstra (1994). Four phases are distinguished in the history of the project, each of which will be discussed below.…”

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The South Netherlands project

Roymans¹

1996

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“…Recent historiography (cf. Slofstra 1994) has been investigating why processual archaeology did not become influential on the Continent, implicitly assuming that this was a process which should have happened. But was it?…”

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Changing perspectives on hunter-gatherers in Continental and in Anglo-American archaeology

Reybrouck¹

1994

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“…New Archaeology in the Netherlands The reception of New Archaeology in the Netherlands has in the past and more recently been the subject of discussion (Slofstra 1974(Slofstra , 1994, Van der Leeuw 1974, Waterbolk 1974, Louwe Kooijmans 1994. It is well known that processual approaches made very slow headway in the Netherlands.…”

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On the natural history of the peasant landscape

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Kolen²,

Waterbolk³

1997

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Harm Tjalling Waterbolk (1924) is regarded, together with Pieter J.R. Modderman (1919) and Willem Glasbergen (1923–1979), as the direct inheritor of the founder of Dutch archaeology Albert Egges van Giffen (1884–1973). From the middle of the 1950s, after Van Giffen's retirement, thistroikashaped the rapidly growing academic archaeology in the Netherlands. Until well into the 1970s and 1980s they occupied the most prominent chairs at the universities of Groningen, Leiden and Amsterdam. One look at Waterbolk's impressive list of publications (almost exclusively articles) tells us that for half a century he has been an authoritative participant in developments in Dutch archaeology. He has been involved, directly or indirectly, in the modernization of excavation practices, in changes in the organization of academic education and research, in the introduction of new methods and techniques and in shifts in theory and interpretation. He has made a valuable contribution to the development of large-scale settlement research, to the shaping of the Dutch legal foundation of university education (the study of prehistory in theAcademisch Statuut), to the expansion of palynological research and the C14 method, and to the conceptualization of long-term continuity in the spatial organization of historical communities. His work is interesting because of the blending of a scientific interest in the history of the cultural landscape and a committed and critical involvement with the protection of such. Enough reasons to interview him ten years after his retirement. We meet Waterbolk in Meppel, a small town in south-west Drenthe, on one of the few hot days in the summer of 1996. It has been agreed that we will first pay a short visit to his birthplace in Havelte and to Van Giffen's grave in Diever. Before long it becomes clear that during the tour a web of named places and paths is gradually unfolding, each with its own historical tale and associated with personal memories. The afternoon is spent in the area between Balloo and Rolde, 5 kilometres east of Assen, the capital of the province of Drenthe. This area, which has an un-Dutch concentration of still existing and visible megalithic tombs, burial mounds, Celtic fields, and prehistoric roads, has recently become the subject of Waterbolk's interest (Waterbolk 1994a, and in press b).

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Recent developments in Dutch archaeology

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

The South Netherlands project

The South Netherlands project

Changing perspectives on hunter-gatherers in Continental and in Anglo-American archaeology

On the natural history of the peasant landscape

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