Dr J. Hans M. Peeters

Lecturer in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology

E-mail: J.H.M.Peeters rug.nl

Expertise and Research Interests

Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology; dynamics of pattern formation; spatial analysis; GIS modelling; complexity theory; lithic technology; anthropology; representation of the past; cultural resource management.

Selected Publications

Peeters, H., in press. 'Occupation continuity' and 'behavioural discontinuity': abrupt changes in forager land use at the Mid/Late Atlantic boundary in the Flevoland polders (the Netherlands). In: Ph. Crombé & M. van Strydonck (eds), Chronology and evolution in the Mesolithic of N(W) Europe. Cambridge, 721-36.

Peeters, H., 2009. Early Holocene landscape dynamics and forager land-use diversity: the example of Hoge Vaart-A27 (Almere, The Netherlands). In: S.B. McCartan, R. Schulting, G. Warren & P. Woodman (eds), Mesolithic Horizons: Papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Belfast 2005. Oxford, 269-76.

Peeters, J.H.M., 2007. Hoge Vaart-A27 in context: towards a model of Mesolithic-Neolithic land use dynamics as a framework for archaeological heritage management. Amersfoort (PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam), 368 p.

Peeters, H., 2006. Sites, landscapes and uncertainty: on the modelling of the archaeological potential and the assessment of deeply buried Stone Age landscapes in the Flevoland polders (the Netherlands). In: E. Rensink & H. Peeters (eds), Preserving the early past. Investigation, selection and preservation of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites and landscapes. Amersfoort (Nederlandse Archeologische Rapporten 31), 167-84.

Rensink, E., J. Deeben & H. Peeters, 2006. Early prehistoric sites and landscapes in the Netherlands. Building frameworks for archaeological heritage management. In: E. Rensink & H. Peeters (eds), Preserving the early past. Investigation, selection and preservation of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites and landscapes. Amersfoort (Nederlandse Archeologische Rapporten 31), 201-26.

Peeters, H., 2005. The forager's pendulum: Mesolithic-Neolithic landscape dynamics, land-use variability and the spatiotemporal resolution of predictive models in archaeological heritage management. In: H. Kamermans & M. van Leusen (eds), Predictive modelling for archaeological heritage management: a research agenda (Nederlandse Archeologische Rapporten 29), Amersfoort, 149-68.

Peeters, H., 2004. The Mesolithic to early Neolithic occupation at the Hoge Vaart (Almere, the Netherlands): forager land-use dynamics in the context of a drowning landscape. In: Acts of the XIVth UISPP congress, University of Liège , Belgium , 2-8 September 2001. Section 7. The Mesolithic (BAR International Series 1302). Oxford, Archaeopress, 27-37.

Makaske, B., D.G. van Smeerdijk, H. Peeters, J.R. Mulder & Th. Spek, 2003. Relative water-level rise in the Flevo-lagoon (the Netherlands), 5300-200 cal. yr BC: an evaluation of new and existing basal peat time-depth data, Netherlands Journal of Geosciences/Geologie en Mijnbouw 82-2, 115-31.

Peeters, H., B. Makaske, J. Mulder, A. Otte-Klomp, D. van Smeerdijk, S. Smit & Th. Spek, 2002. Elements for archaeological heritage management: exploring the archaeological potential of drowned Mesolithic and Early Neolithic landscapes in Zuidelijk Flevoland. Berichten van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek 45, 81-123.

Hogestijn, J.W.H. & J.H.M. Peeters (eds), 2001. De mesolithische en vroeg-neolithische vindplaats Hoge Vaart-A27 (Flevoland) (Rapportage Archeologische Monumentenzorg 79, 20 volumes), Amersfoort, 1575 p.

Brinkkemper, O., W.-J. Hogestijn, H. Peeters, D. Visser & C. Whitton, 1999. The early neolithic site at Hoge Vaart, Al mere, the Netherlands, with particular reference to non-diffusion of crop-plants, and the significance of site function and sample location. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 8, 79-86.