A Human Environment: Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels

This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And what can archaeological knowledge contribute to the current discussions about the use, arrangement and depletion of our (local) environment?

Table of Contents

1 Monique van den Dries and Harry Fokkens
A life dedicated to science. Portrait of professor emerita Corrie Bakels, pioneer of paleoeconomy

2 Thijs van Kolfschoten, Zhanyang Li, Hua Wang and Luc Doyon
The Middle Palaeolithic site Lingjing (Xuchang, Henan, China): preliminary new results

3 Andrew C. Sorensen
Neandertal advice for improving your tinder profile: A pilot study using experimental archaeology to test the usefulness of manganese dioxide (MnO2) in Palaeolithic fire-making

4 Joanne Mol, Lars den Boef and Marie Soressi
Landscape dynamics near the late Middle Palaeolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic cave site of les Cottés (France)

5 Michael H. Field
Een ziltige geur – halophytic macroscopic plant remains from Happisburgh site 1, UK indicating Middle Pleistocene hominin activity in an estuary prior to the Anglian Stage (MIS 12) ice advance

6 Laura Llorente-Rodríguez, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Maria-Teresa Aparicio, Salvador Bailón, Paloma Sevilla and Carmen Sesé
Paleoenvironment and human occupation patterns: a case study for the first half of the Holocene at Cova Fosca (Eastern Spain)

7 Alexander Verpoorte, David Fontijn and Arjan Louwen
Exploring the archaeological heritage of the Uddeler Heegde: an experiment

8 Karsten Lambers
Walking and marking the desert: Geoglyphs in arid South America

9 Simone Casale, Natalia R. Donner, Dennis Braekmans and Alexander Geurds
Pre-Hispanic and contemporary raw materials use in earthenware production in the Río Mayales subbasin, Chontales, central Nicaragua

10 Gerrit Dusseldorp and Luc Amkreutz
A long slow goodbye – Re-examining the Mesolithic – Neolithic transition (5500 – 2500 BCE) in the Dutch delta

11 Ivo M. van Wijk and Piet van de Velde
House Societies or societies with houses?
Bandkeramik kinship and settlement structure from a Dutch perspective

12 Jip Barreveld
Reflections on an environmental history of resistance: state space and shatter zones in Late Antique North Africa

13 Erica van Hees, Jorinde R. Pijnnaken-Vroeijenstijn and Marleen van Zon
Fiery forest management: an anthrocological approach on the charred remains of medieval Noord-Brabant in Udenhout-Den Bogerd, Tilburg

14 Roos van Oosten, Sander Aerts, Jantien Hos and Erica van Hees
Mysterious medieval manure pits: an indication of urban horticulture?
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