Ancestral Heaths : Reconstructing the Barrow Landscape in the Central and Southern Netherlands.
Title:
Ancestral Heaths : Reconstructing the Barrow Landscape in the Central and Southern Netherlands.
Author:
Doorenbosch, Marieke.
ISBN:
9789088901935
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Contents:
Part One -- Introduction: why study the environment of barrows? -- 1.1 The academic significance of environmental barrow research -- 1.2 The societal significance of environmental barrow research -- Environmental research on barrows, an overview so far -- 2.1 The vegetation history of the Netherlands in the Holocene -- 2.2 Environmental research on barrows -- 2.2.1 An overview -- 2.2.2 Pollen analyses for dating purposes -- 2.2.3 The reconstruction of local vegetation: regional and cultural differences -- 2.3 Vegetation reconstructions of the barrow environment: open spaces in the landscape -- 2.3.1 An overview of open spaces -- 2.3.2 Which open spaces were chosen for the building of barrows? -- 2.3.3 What was the size of the open spaces barrows were built in? -- Conclusions -- Barrow research, missing data -- 3.1 Research questions -- 3.2 Research area -- 3.3 Research methods -- Part Two -- Methodology -- Sampling and treatment of soil samples -- 4.1 The sampling of barrows -- 4.1.1 The sampling of the old surface -- 4.1.2 The sampling of sods -- 4.1.3 The sampling of the soil profile underneath barrows -- 4.1.4 The sampling of ditch fills -- 4.1.5 The sampling of posthole fills -- 4.2 Chemical treatment and analysis of palynological soil samples -- The palynology of mineral soil profiles -- 5.1 The theory behind the palynology of mineral soils -- 5.2 The time represented in a mineral soil pollen diagram -- 5.3. Absence of pollen grains in barrows -- Conclusions -- The pollen sum -- 6.1 Slabroek -- 6.2 Contemporaneous barrow pollen spectra -- Conclusions -- The size of an open place where a barrow was built -- 7.1 The size and the number of sods used in a barrow -- 7.1.1 An example: -- 7.2 The size of an open heathland area - examples from present Dutch heathland areas -- Sites and sampling methods -- Methods of analysis.
Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- 7.3 The distance of a barrow to the forest edge - palynological modelling -- Barrow landscape simulation -- 7.4 Discussion -- Part Three -- Case-studies -- Northern and central Veluwe -- 8.1 Echoput -- 8.1.1 Site description -- 8.1.2 Pollen sampling and analysis -- 8.1.3 Results -- 8.1.4 Discussion -- 8.1.5 In conclusion: the history of the Echoput barrow landscape -- 8.2 Niersen-Vaassen -- 8.2.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.2.2 Results -- 8.2.3 Discussion -- 8.3 Ermelo -- 8.3.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.3.2 Results -- 8.3.3 Discussion -- 8.4 Putten -- 8.4.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.4.2 Results and discussion -- 8.5 Vierhouten -- 8.5.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.5.2 Results and discussion -- 8.6 Emst -- 8.6.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.6.1 Results and discussion -- 8.7 Uddelermeer -- 8.7.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.7.2 Results and discussion -- 8.8 Boeschoten -- 8.8.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.8.1 Results and discussion -- 8.9 Ugchelen -- 8.9.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.9.1 Results and discussion -- 8.10 Stroe -- 8.10.1 Results and discussion -- 8.11 Palynological results from peat and lake sediments -- 8.11.1 Site description and sample locations -- 8.11.2 Results and discussion -- 8.12 Summary: the barrow landscape of northern and central Veluwe -- The Renkum stream valley -- 9.1 Site description and sample locations -- Burial mounds belonging to the barrow alignment -- Burial mounds outside the barrow alignment -- 9.2 Results and discussion -- Gooi -- 10.1 Site description and sample locations -- Baarn Group -- Hilversum Group -- Laren Group -- Roosterbos -- The Laarder Wasmeren area -- 10.2 Results and discussion -- Gooi area -- Laarder Wasmeren area.
The (pre)barrow landscape of the Gooi -- Toterfout-Halve Mijl and surroundings -- 11.1 Toterfout-Halve Mijl -- 11.1.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.1.2 Results and discussion -- 11.2 Hoogeloon -- 11.2.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.2.2 Results and discussion -- 11.3 Knegsel-Urnenweg -- 11.3.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.3.2 Results and discussion -- 11.4 Knegsel-Moormanlaan -- 11.4.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.4.2 Results and discussion -- 11.5 Steensel -- 11.5.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.5.2 Results and discussion -- 11.6 Eersel -- 11.6.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.6.2 Results and discussion -- 11.7 Bergeijk -- 11.7.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.7.2 Results and discussion -- 11.8 Alphen -- 11.8.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.8.2 Results and discussion -- 11.9 Goirle -- 11.9.1 Site description and sample locations -- 11.9.2 Results and discussion -- 11.10 Summary: the barrow landscape of Toterfout-Halve Mijl and surroundings -- Oss-Zevenbergen and surroundings -- 12.1 Oss-Vorstengraf area and Oss-Zevenbergen -- 12.1.1 Site description and sample locations -- 12.1.2 Results -- 12.1.3 Discussion -- 12.1.4 In conclusion: the history of the Oss-Zevenbergen landscape -- 12.2 Vorssel -- 12.2.1 Site description and sample locations -- 12.2.2 Results and discussion -- 12.3 Slabroek -- 12.3.1 Site description and sample locations -- 12.3.2 Results and discussion -- 12.4 Schaijk -- 12.4.1 Site description and sample locations -- 12.4.2 Results and discussion -- 12.5 Palynological results from palaeosoils, peat and lake sediments -- 12.5.1 Site description and sample locations -- 12.5.2 Results and discussion -- 12.6 Summary: the barrow landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen and surroundings.
Ancestral heaths: understanding the barrow landscape -- 13.1 The barrow landscape -- 13.1.1 What did the barrow landscape look like in the central and southern Netherlands during the 3rd to 1st millennium cal BC? -- 13.1.2 What was the history of the barrow landscape before the barrows were built? -- 13.1.3 What does this mean? -- 13.1.4 What was the role of barrows in the landscape? -- 13.2 The heath open-forest passage landscape as part of the Dutch prehistoric landscape -- Conclusions: answers to the research questions -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Acknowledgments -- Curriculum Vitae.
Abstract:
Barrows, i.e. burial mounds, are amongst the most important of Europe's prehistoric monuments. Across the continent, barrows still figure as prominent elements in the landscape. Many of these mounds have been excavated, revealing much about what was buried inside these intriguing monuments. Surprisingly, little is known about the landscape in which the barrows were situated and what role they played in their environment. Palynological data, carrying important clues on the barrow environment, are available for hundreds of excavated mounds in the Netherlands. However, while local vegetation reconstructions from these barrows exist, a reconstruction of the broader landscape around the barrows has yet to be made. This makes it difficult to understand their role in the prehistoric cultural landscape.In this book a detailed vegetation history of the landscape around burial mounds is presented. Newly obtained and extant data derived from palynological analyses taken from barrow sites are (re-)analysed. Methods in barrow palynology are discussed and further developed when necessary. Newly developed techniques are applied in order to get a better impression of the role barrows played in their environment.It is argued in this book that barrows were built on existing heaths, which had been and continued to be maintained for many generations by so-called heath communities. These heaths, therefore, can be considered as 'ancestral heaths'. The barrow landscape was part of the economic zone of farming communities, while the heath areas were used as grazing grounds. The ancestral heaths were very stable elements in the landscape and were kept in existence for thousands of years. In fact, it is argued that these ancestral heaths were the most important factor in structuring the barrow landscape.
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