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This book deals with the early history of agriculture in a defined part of Western Europe: the loess belt west of the river Rhine. It is a well-illustrated book that integrates existing and new information, starting with the first farmers and ending when food production was no longer the chief source of livelihood for the entire population. The loess belt was chosen because it is a region with only one type of soil and climate as these are all-important factors where farming is concerned. Subjects covered are crops, crop cultivation, livestock and livestock handling, the farm and its yard, and the farm in connection with other farms. Crop plants and animals are described, together with their...
Van Planten en Slakken bevat vierentwintig wetenschappelijke, korte en kleurrijk geïllustreerde artikelen over planten en mollusken, geschreven door achtendertig collega’s en oudleerlingen van Wim Kuijper, botanisch analist van de Universiteit Leiden en weekdieren kenner. Het merendeel van de artikelen behandelt één of twee soorten, gevonden bij archeologische opgravingen, die anders verborgen blijven in de bijlagen of tussen de pagina's van een lang opgravingsverslag. In deze compilatie staan de nederige bolderik, vergeet-mij-niet en cocon van de regenworm juist centraal.
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This volume contains five articles on recent research from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University. Two of them have as topic the Palaeolithic, three Palaeobotany. Watching the river flow: a small-scale survey of the floodplain deposits in the Vezere valley, between Le Moustier and Les Eyzies (Dordogne, France) Wil Roebroeks, Hans Kamermans, Joanne Mol, Alain Turq, Thijs van Kolfschoten Patterns of Middle and Upper Paleolithic land use in Central Lazio (Italy) Hans Kamermans, Jan Sevink Crops grown on the sandy soils of Eastern Brabant (the Netherlands) before, during and after the Roman occupation Corrie Bakels Coffee, cacao and sugar cane in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Waddenzee, the Netherlands Wim Kuiper, Martijn Manders Shipping pepper: examining botanical contents of a 17th-century shipwreck at Texel Roads, the Netherlands Cornelie Moolhuizen
The Roman Villa of Maasbracht is famous for the beautiful remains of murals that have survived to this day. This book publishes the settlement traces and structures, pottery, the building material, the wall painting fragments, animal remains and bone artefacts, glass and jet, the metalwork and of course a synthesis.
Niederlande - Samen und Früchte - Neolithikum.