Living in a wetland landscape: the late Neolithic Vlaardingen culture revisited
- Date
- Friday 13 March 2026
- Time
- Location
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Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2
2333 CC Leiden - Room
- Reuvens Hall (main hall Van Steenis) / online
The project Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses: investigating domestic craft and subsistence activities through experiments and material analysis is coming to a closure after 5 years of collaborative research by a team of archaeological specialists, craftspeople and open-air public centres. The project intended to re-evaluate the wetland sites of the late Neolithic Vlaardingen culture, using new methods of analysis, experiments and public participation to elucidate daily life in the Rhine/Meuse delta during the Late Neolithic.
To celebrate, we are organising a day of lectures in which the results of the project will be presented and discussed by team members and invited speakers. The symposium will be hybrid and will allow circa 80 people to attend in person. Coffee and tea, as well as drinks afterwards will be provided.
We kindly invite you to contact m.siebrecht@exarc.net if you would like to attend, indicating whether you would like to attend in person or online. Please do so before February 25.
Programme
8.45- 9.05
Coffee and tea upon arrival
9.05 - 9.20
Welcome and introducing Masamuda and the project Putting Life into late Neolithic houses by Annelou van Gijn and Jeroen ter Brugge
9.20 - 9.45
Putting life into late Neolithic houses film by Yuri van Koeveringe
9.45 -10.15
Putting food into Late Neolithic houses: revealing household culinary practices in 3rd MBC western Netherlands through integrated organic residue analysis of carbonised food crusts on pottery by Lucy Kubiak-Martens, Jonica Ella Doliente, Andrew Kenney, Alexandre Lucquin, Ineke Joosten & Oliver E Craig
10.15 -10.45
Toolkits of the delta people: a biographical approach by Annelou van Gijn, Lasse van den Dikkenberg, Cynthia Kromotaroeno, Annemieke Verbaas and Aaron Westra
10.45 -11.15
Coffee and tea break
11.15 -11.45
Functional Analysis: Revealing Diversity in Stone Tool Roles within Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe invited lecture by Aimee Little
11.45 -12.15
Film: Neolithic wood is good for almost everything by Kirsti Hänninen, Diederik Pomstra, Annemieke Verbaas, Caroline Vermeeren and Leo Wolterbeek
12.15-12.30
Present Connections to Research the Past by Matilda Siebrecht
12.30 - 13.15
Lunch
13.15 -13.45
Deconstructing a Dutch Dogma. Coastal Neolithic or Neolithic on the Coast? Invited lecture by Daan Raemaekers
13.45 -14.15
Vegetation and plant use at the Late Neolithic wetland site of Hekelingen III, 2900-2500 BC invited lecture by Welmoed Out
14.15 -14.45
Construction activities at Masamuda, the house, the hut and the dugout by Leo Wolterbeek, Jeroen ter Brugge, Diederik Pomstra and Annelou van Gijn
14.45 -15.15
Tea break
15.15 -15.45
Connectivity in the Vlaardingen period by Lasse van den Dikkenberg, Jeroen ter Brugge, Rob Houkes, Dennis Braekmans and Jisca de Bruin
15.45 -16.05
A Rich Palette of a Thousand Words: Visualising Life in the Neolithic Delta by Kelvin Wilson
16.05 -17.00
Discussion moderator Luc Amkreutz
17.00
Drinks