TY - JOUR
T1 - Transformations in a Dutch estuary
T2 - Research in a wet landscape
AU - Brandt, R. W.
AU - van der Leeuw, S. E.
AU - van Wijngaarden‐Bakker, L. H.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to express their gratitude to the Netherlands Organisation for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.) and the Province of North Holland for their financial support of the project reported herein. They would also like to thank Drs A. A. Abbink, Prof. J. H. F. Bloemers, Prof. W. Groenman-van Waateringe, Drs J. P. Pals, Drs L. L. Therkorn and Drs P.Vos for their valuable advice on various parts of this paper. The responsibility for the final text, however, is our own.
PY - 1984/6
Y1 - 1984/6
N2 - This paper discusses recent research on an estuarine area in the Netherlands. It argues a shift in focus towards multiple levels of research, the monitoring of information processing aspects to past societies and their environments, and the use of flow structure models to conceptualize cultural transformations. It describes the palaeogeography and palaeoecology of the area, and the mutual interactions between dead matter, living matter and humans. It next develops a model for human response to variations in sea level and suitability of the land in the estuary, and concludes with some remarks on the results which are due to the change in perspective.
AB - This paper discusses recent research on an estuarine area in the Netherlands. It argues a shift in focus towards multiple levels of research, the monitoring of information processing aspects to past societies and their environments, and the use of flow structure models to conceptualize cultural transformations. It describes the palaeogeography and palaeoecology of the area, and the mutual interactions between dead matter, living matter and humans. It next develops a model for human response to variations in sea level and suitability of the land in the estuary, and concludes with some remarks on the results which are due to the change in perspective.
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U2 - 10.1080/00438243.1984.9979912
DO - 10.1080/00438243.1984.9979912
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0021623283
SN - 0043-8243
VL - 16
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - World Archaeology
JF - World Archaeology
IS - 1
ER -