The South Netherlands project
N.G.A.M. Roymans
This article discusses the development of research strategy South Netherlands project conducted by Instituut voor Pre- en Protohistorische Archeologie (IPP) University Amsterdam. Its general objective is study long-term transformations in landscape and culture between ca 1000 B.C. 1200 A.D. flat sandy region southern adjacent part northern Belgium. area 100 140 km roughly bordered rivers Meuse, Demer Scheldt (= MDS-region; see figure 1). The has a history which started early 1970s. It evolved out ‘Kempenproject’ IPP Archeologisch van de Vrije Universiteit (AIVU) at At present it major programme IPP, with each year several large excavations dispersed over region, but concentration south-eastern half province North-Brabant (figure
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