The articulation of a "New neolithic" Raemaekers, D.C.M.

for the process of neolithisation in the western part of the North European Plain (4900-3400

While in the first perspective the hunter-gatherer mode of subsistence is interpreted as being inferior to the farming way of life and the adoption of farming may be seen as

To take this argument one step further than Sackett does: if isochrestic behaviour creates the raw material for emblemic observation (as suggested above), one could argue that

The as yet sparse information on the Early Phase of the Swifterbant Culture suggests that the proposed subdivision of the Middle Phase into a southern and a northern Group is a

In other words, the historical and structural differences between the Swifterbant Culture and the Ertebølle Culture (see section 5.2.3) are still reflected in the flint material,

Not only the Danish data are in accordance with this notion, those on the Swifterbant Culture also fit in with Rowley-Conwy’s interpretation: in contrast to the Ertebølle Culture,

For studying the functional relation between the types and amounts of temper on the one hand, and the other character- istics on the other hand, a diagram was produced in which

While descrip- tions of the flint artefacts of the Swifterbant culture are few — only the flint material from Hüde I and some material of the Swifterbant cluster has been published —