| 1 | The archaeologically very rich area of the south-east of the Netherlands, each dot representing one or more sites (source: national archaeological database Archis) |
| 2 | Detail from the distribution map of the sites from the Beaker period. Sites are presented as segment diagrams, a way of visualizing artefact composition |
| 3 | Cause and result are interrelated: a model of increasing intensification during the Neolithization process |
| 4 | Different survey techniques, fieldwalking (left) and coring with a very large (mega) auger (right) |
| 5 | Between the areas in the South (Bandkeramic) and the West (Michelsberg) lies a considerable spatial and chronological gap in our knowledge |
| 6 | The three elements of the archaeological analysis of the Meuse Valley Project, from top to bottom: the spatial pattern, the geographical location and site typology |
| 7 | The quantitative and qualitative differences in the late Mesolithic site pattern if either based on the data from the literature/national database (macro region; left) or based on the inventory of museums and private collections (core region; right) |
| 8 | The information about the settlement pattern passes through three filters - site formation, post depositional processes and the influence of archaeological research - before it becomes our distribution map |
| 9 | Pie chart, Tukey star and segment diagram for the artefact composition of the same site |
| 10 | The Michelsberg sites in diagrams |
| 11 | The artefact composition of the 23 Michelsberg sites. |
| 12 | Multi Dimensional Scaling diagram for the Michelsberg phase. The sites are depicted as segment diagrams and the 'balloons' indicate differing artefact types |
| 13 | The late Mesolithic sites in Venray: segment diagrams on the distribution map |
| 14 | The Michelsberg sites in Venray: segment diagrams on the distribution map |
| 15 | The sites from the Beaker period in Venray: segment diagrams on the distribution map |
| 16 | Detail of the map with the segment diagrams for the late Mesolithic sites |
| 17 | Detail of the map with the segment diagrams for the late Mesolithic sites |
| 18 | Detail of the map with the segment diagrams for the Michelsberg sites |
| 19 | [same as 2] Detail of the map with the segment diagrams for the sites from the Beaker period |
| 20 | Detail of the map with the segment diagrams for the sites from the Beaker period |
| 21 | [same as 3] Cause and result are interrelated: a model of increasing intensification during the Neolithization process |
| 22 | A small part of the excavation plan of the Hazendonk in the river area of the Netherlands. Part of a canoe, paddle and wooden trackway lie in the peat (yellow), south of the high sand island ('donk'), where pits and a palisade were discovered (after: Louwe Kooijmans 1985) |
| 23 | Detail of the distribution map of the regional research area of Midden Delfland, prior to the systematic field survey: known sites (open circles) and newly discovered sites (closed circles) (after Bult 1983) |
| 24 | [same as 4] Different survey techniques, fieldwalking (left) and coring with a very large (mega) auger (right) |
| 25 | [same as 1] The archaeologically very rich area of the south-east of the Netherlands, each dot representing one or more sites (source: National Archaeological Database Archis) |
| 26 | [same as 5] Between the areas in the South (Bandkeramic) and the West (Michelsberg) lies a considerable spatial and chronological gap in our knowledge |
| 27 | The model of a foraging subsistence-settlement with a high residential mobility, as it was presented in Lewis Binford's famous article "Willow Smoke and Dog's Tails", has been converted into a distribution map of sites with base camps (black dots) and associated activity locations (blue dots) (after Binford 1980) |
| 28 | [same as 6] The three elements of the archaeological analysis of the Meuse Valley Project, from top to bottom: the spatial pattern, the geographical location and site typology |
| 29 | The four spatial levels at which research has been undertaken in the Meuse Valley Project |
| 30 | The major landscape elements of the core region of Venray, from west to east: the moorland of the Peel (brown), the coversand area (yellow) and the valley of the River Meuse (green) |
| 31 | Recent geological factors influencing the visibility of archaeogical remains in the core region of Venray, plaggen soils (orange), peat (purple) and drift sands (dark yellow) |
| 32 | All findspots in the core region of Venray as recorded by the Meuse Valley Project, illustrating the activity areas of the amateur archaeologists |
| 33 | [same as 7] The quantitative and qualitative differences in the late Mesolithic site pattern if either based on the data from the literature/national database (macro region; left) or based on the inventory of museums and private collections (core region; right) |
| 34 | [same as 8] The information about the settlement pattern passes through three filters - site formation, post depositional processes and the influence of archaeological research - before it becomes our distribution map |
| 35 | Findspots in the core region of Venray which can be dated to one or more cultural periods |
| 36 | Seriation of the artefact composition of the Michelsberg sites. Artefact types which occur on one single site and sites that consist of one artefact type only had to be excluded from the analyses |
| 37 | The calculated correlation coefficient (R) is mathematically correct, but does not give a useful summary of the relationship between these two variables |
| 38 | Examples of Tukey stars |
| 39 | Different progressive classification sequences. The cube root, natural logarithm and logarithm are displayed as a continuous curve and as a stepway of the discrete values obtained by rounding off |
| 40 | [same as 9] Pie chart, Tukey star and segment diagram for the artefact composition of the same site |
| 41 | [same as 10] The Michelsberg sites in diagrams |
| 42 | [same as 14] The Michelsberg sites in Venray: segment diagrams on the distribution map |
| 43 | Visualizing a dissimilarity matrix |
| 44 | Multi Dimensional Scaling diagram of the 5 selected Michelsberg sites |
| 45 | [same as 12] Multi Dimensional Scaling diagram for the Michelsberg phase. The sites are depicted as segment diagrams and the 'balloons' indicate differing artefact types |
| 46 | Distribution of the late Mesolithic sites in the core region of Venray |
| 47 | Distribution of the Michelsberg sites in the core region of Venray |
| 48 | Distribution of the sites from the Beaker period in the core region of Venray |
| 49 | The Late Mesolithic sites in diagrams |
| 50 | The artefact composition of the 14 late Mesolithic sites |
| 51 | Multi Dimensional Scaling diagram for the late Mesolithic with the sites depicted as segment diagrams |
| 52 | [same as 13] The late Mesolithic sites in Venray: segment diagrams on the distribution map |
| 53 | [same as 14] The Michelsberg sites in Venray: segment diagrams on the distribution map |
| 54 | The sites from the Beaker period in diagrams |
| 55 | The artefact composition of the 20 sites from the Beaker period |
| 56 | Multi Dimensional Scaling diagram for the Beaker period with the sites depicted as segment diagrams |
| 57 | [same as 15] The sites from the Beaker period in Venray: segment diagrams on the distribution map |
| 58 | [same as 3] Cause and result are interrelated: a model of increasing intensification during the Neolithization process |
| 1 | The 'culturally clean' sites in the core region of Venray by period |
| 2 | Michelsberg sites, artefact numbers |
| 3 | Michelsberg sites, progressive class values |
| 4 | The four levels of the multi-stage approach of the Meuse Valley Project |
| 5 | Typo-chronological diagram and the various guide artefacts as used in the Meuse Valley Project (including images of the guide artefacts of each phase) |
| 6 | The number of sites available for the site-typological analyses |
| 7 | [same as 1] The 'culturally clean' sites in the core region of Venray by period |
| 8 | [same as 2] Michelsberg sites, artefact numbers |
| 9 | The artefact composition of Michelsberg site 52B-168 using different levels of measurement |
| 10 | Progressive ordinal class values |
| 11 | [same as 3] Michelsberg sites, progressive class values |
| 12 | Cross table of two Michelsberg sites in order to calculate the dissimilarity variable Phi |
| 13 | Dissimilarity matrix of the 5 selected Michelsberg sites |
| 14 | Late Mesolithic sites, artefact numbers |
| 15 | Sites from the Beaker period, artefact numbers |
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