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The Site of Verrebroek ‘Dok’ and its Contribution to the Absolute Dating of the Mesolithic in the Low Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Mark J Y Van Strydonck ,
Philippe Crombé  and
Ann Maes
Mark J Y Van Strydonck*
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Jubelpark 1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Philippe Crombé
Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of Europe, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Ann Maes
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Jubelpark 1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

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The wetland site of Verrebroek “Dok” situated in northern Belgium is one of the largest and best dated locations of Mesolithic material in northwestern Europe. Salvage excavations organized since 1992 at this large, unstratified open-air settlement have revealed more than 50 spatially independent artifact concentrations with traces of numerous fireplaces. Single entity dating of charred hazelnut shells from surface-hearths and charcoal from hearth-pits was used to obtain information not only on the sites duration, but also on the relation between the surface hearths and the hearth-pits. The dates were also used to look at discrepancies between the radiocarbon chronology and the typo-chronology of the lithic artifacts.

Type
II. Our ‘Wet’ Environment
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2B: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 3), Conference Editors: Israel Carmi, Elisabetta Boaretto , 2001 , pp. 997 - 1005
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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