We investigate how crop cultivation started in the Dutch lowlands. In their research, Huisman and Cohen make use of geological datasets, geophysical measurements, mechanical drilling and microscopic and palaeobotanical techniques. All these means will help them to investigate how and how quickly crop cultivation was introduced.

Project lead by Hans Huisman (PI, RUG) & Kim Cohen (co-PI, UU).

1 PhD at Utrecht (Familetto @ Dept. Ph.G.; supervised by Cohen, Huisman, Hoek, Stouthamer) - RM Delta buried levee landscapes. Central NL lagoon 'Swifterbant' inland tidal river levees, paleo-soil investigation, micromorphology, landscape suitability, offsite evidence of human land clearing and neolithic tillage 

1 PhD at Groningen (Smuk @ GIA; supervised by Huisman, Schepers, Raemaekers, ...) - archaeobotany, evidence for agricultural human presence in paleovegetation signals.

Further consortia partners: Barcelona Archeobotany (Madello), BIAX (Kubiak-Martens), RAAP (Willemse).

"Living on the Levees"- Palaeogeography and geoarchaeology, including micromorphology

• dr. Wim Hoek
• prof. dr. Esther Stouthamer
• dr. Kim Cohen

• Hans Huisman (RUG); various others.