In the course of the Holocene large parts of the Northwest European mainland became
overgrown with peat, only a fraction of which has survived to the present day. The diachronic …

Why do people destroy objects and materials that are important to them? This book aims to
make sense of this fascinating, yet puzzling social practice by focusing on a period in history …

On the mainland of northwest Europe generally only remnants of former peat landscapes
subsist. Due to the poor preservation of these landscapes, alternative approaches to …

There is a growing interest in the rescue and reuse of data from past studies (so‐called
legacy data). Data loss is alarming, especially where natural archives are under threat, such …

Peatlands are regarded as having exceptional archaeological value, due to the fact that the
waterlogged conditions of these environments, like other wetlands, can preserve organic …

Data rescue in the geosciences is a field of rapidly growing interest (Wyborn et al., 2015).
Data that has been collected in the past is often referred to as 'legacy'data (Griffin, 2015; …

In the mainland of Northwest Europe generally only remnants of former peat landscapes
subsist. Due to the poor preservation of these landscapes, alternative approaches to …

Dutch ornament traditions in the Neolithic period focused on strung beads of amber, jet,
stone and bone (eg Piena & Drenth 2001; Van Gijn 2006; Verschoof 2011; DeVriendt 2013 …

Dutch ornament traditions in the Neolithic period focused on strung beads of amber, jet,
stone and bone (eg Piena & Drenth 2001; Van Gijn 2006; Verschoof 2011; DeVriendt 2013 …

Humans have been interacting with raised bogs in the Low Countries for millennia, in a
variety of ways. In prehistoric times, the peat bogs were used to sacrifice a variety of items …