The Netherlands: 'Unique traces' found of first farmers from 7000 years ago

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'Unique traces' of first farmers excavated in Gelderland

06 November 2020 16:15 - Last update: 1 day, 4 hours ago

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Archaeological research in Angeren, Gelderland, has unearthed the remains at one location not only of hunters and gatherers, but also of the first farmers. These "unique traces" were found during the preparations for the extension of the A15 from junction Ressen to the A12, Rijkswaterstaat reported [in Dutch, with extra illustrations] on Friday.

"It is rare that remains of both forms of society are found in one place", writes Rijkswaterstaat. "The excavation provides new, exceptional insights into how people settled in one place and became farmers".

The agency points out that little is known about the period in which hunters and gatherers switched from a nomadic existence to a life in a fixed place with agriculture and cattle breeding. The discovery in Angeren, a village in the municipality of Lingewaard, allows archaeologists to investigate this further.

The objects found are about seven thousand years old. They include flints, rubbing stones to grind grain and seeds, and pieces of pottery from pots and pans. The remains have been excavated at a place where once a side arm of the Rhine could be found.

The first inhabitants lived on the banks, says René Isarin, archaeologist at the Department of Public Works. "They benefited from two landscapes: a high and dry area with a supply of nuts, fruit, seeds, roots and opportunities for farmland, and a wet area with fresh water, fish and other aquatic animals. And last but not least: possibilities for transport".

In Angeren, among other places, Rijkswaterstaat is carrying out preparatory studies because of the planned extension of the A15 and the widening of the A12 and A15. Two years ago, a Roman burial ground was found just southwest of Angeren, in the town of Bemmel.


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Hoi Goy! Not exactly shure why you put this. Traces of the first industrial revolution of the present post deluvian cyclus.
Most productive soil in the world getting spoilt for the last spasms of the pre space age?
 
This fits nicely to it. Some villages, close to Urk, drowned in the 1287 St Lucia flood, found back now. Adapt 2030 seems to miss that these villages, just like Urk, were islands.
They were clumps of clay ("keileem") , formed at the mouth of the river Ijssel, surviving as islands after the bog ("veen") washed away.
 
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Hoi Goy! Not exactly shure why you put this. Traces of the first industrial revolution of the present post deluvian cyclus.
Most productive soil in the world getting spoilt for the last spasms of the pre space age?
I mean Pal, not Goy. ooepssorry
 
Hoi Pal! Not exactly shure why you put this.

The article itself answers your question:

"It is rare that remains of both forms of society are found in one place", writes Rijkswaterstaat. "The excavation provides new, exceptional insights into how people settled in one place and became farmers".

The agency points out that little is known about the period in which hunters and gatherers switched from a nomadic existence to a life in a fixed place with agriculture and cattle breeding. The discovery in Angeren, a village in the municipality of Lingewaard, allows archaeologists to investigate this further.

It's a long standing subject on this research forum to gather info about all aspects of evolution and the separate phases in the historical development of man and society throughout the ages.

A few random examples:

How settler farmers fathered Europe's males
Inequality and hierarchy in human (pre) history

The New History of Mankind: Who Are we? What are we? How did we get here?
The Forgotten Exodus: The Into Africa Theory of Human Evolution

Darwin's Black Box - Michael J. Behe and Intelligent Design
Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America by Andrew Collins & Gregory Little
 
It's a long standing subject on this research forum to gather info about all aspects of evolution and the separate phases in the historical development of man and society throughout the ages.
Ok, yes i saw the article. He found a hand grinding stone, guessing it was 5k years old. You know the the Scandinavian geese hang out there during the winter months and maybe those paleo people liked some beer with the barbecue :)
 
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