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SUMMARY:An animal-oriented perspective on the Neolithic transition in the 
 Dutch wetlands - Dr Nathalie Brusgaard\, Leiden University
DTSTART:20250213T160000Z
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CONTACT:Rachel Ballantyne
DESCRIPTION:The Dutch wetlands have been the basis of numerous\, rich Meso
 lithic-Neolithic excavations\, which have brought significant new insights
  into the Neolithic transition in the Netherlands. Recent research has dem
 onstrated that the Swifterbant culture communities living in these wetland
 s practised animal and crop husbandry from ca. 4300 BCE. Yet\, the faunal 
 evidence also suggests that the lifeways of this culture\, and their succe
 ssors\, continued otherwise fairly unchanged. Hunting and fishing remained
  a significant way of life. In this talk\, I will discuss the contrasting 
 evidence for foraging and farming subsistence from two animal-oriented per
 spectives: beavers\, the hunted animal\, and cattle\, the managed animal. 
 I will examine how these animals provide different insights into the Neoli
 thisation process in the Netherlands and how these insights can be merged 
 in a multispecies perspective. Through this\, this talk will explore why t
 he Dutch wetlands were home to a unique subsistence mode that persisted fo
 r over 1500 years and that defies archaeological categorisation.\n\nJoin o
 nline: https://bit.ly/garrod2025
LOCATION:McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room
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