Between foraging and farming

Between Foraging and Farming is liber amicorum for prof. Leendert Louwe Kooijmans, former dean of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. Neolithisation has been Louwe Kooijmans' research field since the nineteen-sixties and that is the reason why the topic of this book is the Meso-Neo transition. Twenty-three researchers contributed to this volume, among them colleagues from the Faculty like Corrie Bakels, Annelou van Gijn , Pieter van de Velde and Harry Fokkens, but also from other Dutch institutes like Marjorie de Grooth and Jan Albert Bakker, and colleagues from abroad like Bryony Coles, Alasdair Whittle, Richard Bradley, Peter Bogucki, Søren Andersen and Haio Zimmermann. A fitting homage for a great researcher.Contents:Jan Hendrik Holwerda and the adoption of the three-age system in the NetherlandsLeo VerhartThe temporality of culture changesHarry FokkensTiming, tempo and temporalities in the early Neolithic of southern BritainAlex Bayliss, Alasdair Whittle, Frances HealyThe end of the beginning: changing confi gurations in the British and Irish NeolithicRichard BradleyThe Danubian-Baltic Borderland: Northern Poland in the fifth millennium BCPeter BoguckiThe Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Western Denmark seen from a kitchen midden perspective: a surveySøren H. AndersenTracing the Neolithic in the lowlands of Belgium: the evidence from Sandy FlandersPhilippe Crombé, Joris SergantA southern view on north-south interaction during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Lower Rhine AreaBart VanmontfortThe foam that fl ies ahead of a wave of advance: thoughts on the early neolithisation of the Lower Rhine uplandsPieter van de VeldeMaastricht-Vogelzang, the Netherlands, a Michelsberg site in the valley of the Meuse seen from a botanical angleCorrie BakelsPhosphate mapping of a Funnel Beaker Culture house from Flögeln-Eekhöltjen, district of Cuxhaven, Lower SaxonyW. Haio ZimmermannThe Schipluiden pottery: mobility, exchange and mode of productionDaan RaemaekersHazendonk layers over and over againLuc Amkreutz, Leo Verhart, Milco WansleebenThe scale of human impact at the Hazendonk, the Netherlands, during the Late NeolithicWelmoed OutAn eagle-eyed perspective. Haliaeetus albicilla in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Lower Rhine AreaLuc Amkreutz, Raymond CorbeyWere beavers aware? A change of perspective on the neolithisation of BritainBryony ColesExotic fl int and the negotiation of a new identity in the 'margins' of the agricultural world: the case of the Rhine-Meuse deltaAnnelou van GijnEngaging with stone: Making the Neolithic in Ireland and Western BritainGabriel CooneyPoints of contact. Refl ections on Bandkeramik-Mesolithic interactions west of the RhineMarjorie de GroothOn the Production of Discoidal Flint Knives and Changing Patterns of Specialist Flint Procurement in the Neolithic on the South Downs, EnglandJulie GardinerUpper Largie and Dutch-Scottish connections during the Beaker periodAlison SheridanNeolithic Alpine axeheads, from the Continent to Great Britain, the Isle of Manand IrelandPierre Pétrequin, Alison Sheridan, Serge Cassen, Michel Errera, Estelle Gauthier, Lutz Klassen, Nicolas Le MauxYvan PaillerA note on prehistoric routes on the Veluwe and near UelzenJan Albert Bakker