Journal of Neolithic Archaeology 19 December 2018 doi 10.12766/jna.2018S.7 Heiloo-Craenenbroeck. A Late Neolithic/ Article history: Early Bronze Age settlement on the western Received 15 December 2017 coast of the Netherlands Reviewed 18 May 2018 Published 19 December 2018 Jan de Koning & Erik Drenth Keywords: Heiloo-Craenenbroeck; province with a contribution by Frans Bunnik of Noord-Holland; the Netherlands; Late Neolithic; Early Bronze Age; house-plan; ard-marks Abstract Cite as: Jan de Koning, Erik Drenth: This paper discusses a site in the western coastal district of the Heiloo-Craenenbroeck. A Late Neolithic/ Dutch province of Noord-Holland. There, one or two house-plans Early Bronze Age settlement on the that were partially two- and partially three-aisled as well as ard- western coast of the Netherlands marks were discovered at the transition between a dune and a dune JNA 20, 2018S, 123–142 [doi 10.12766/jna.2018S.7] valley which was formed behind a coastal barrier. Stratigraphic evi- dence indicates that the habitation preceded the agricultural activ- Authors‘ addresses: ities. All together, this human presence dates somewhere between Jan de Koning, Hollandia archeologen c. 2000 – 1850 BC, the final stage of the Bell Beaker Culture and the Tuinstraat 27a 1544 RS Zaandijk onset of the Barbed Wire Beaker Culture in the Netherlands. The Netherlands
[email protected] Introduction Erik Drenth, Torenstraat 4 3811 DJ Amersfoort,The Netherlands House-plans dating to the final stage of the Neolithic and the on-
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