Ancestral Heaths. Reconstructing the barrow landscape in the central and southern Netherlands

This deposit presents the dissertation "Ancestral Heaths. Reconstructing the barrow landscape in the central and southern Netherlands" by M. Doorenbosch, and the pollen data used in this dissertation. 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 pla... Mehr ...