Stijn Arnoldussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1203899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stijn Arnoldussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnoldussen |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOLDUSSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5121-2738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Elite connections
The Eibergen hoard, discovered in 1982-1983 and donated to Museum De Scheper in 2023, represents a remarkable Late Bronze Age assemblage of tools and ornaments from Eibergen, in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands. Comprising at least 19 objects – including socketed axes, a composite goad, bracelets, hair rings, a necklace spacer, and glass and bronze beads – the hoard reflects a deliberate deposition of elite-connected artefacts. The goa…
Walking down the same old roads? Revisiting Dutch bog trackways (3200 BC-AD 200)
This paper explores the historical and cultural significance of bog trackways in the Netherlands from 3200 BC to AD 200. For three case-study regions, it focuses on the construction, use, and depositions placed near bog trackways — wooden pathways built across marshes and peat bogs that were present in various parts of the Netherlands in prehistory. These trackways are not only seen as functional routes but also as integral parts of the cultural …
Before Temples
High δ 15 N and δ 13 C Values in Aurochs, Cattle and Sheep Bones from Salt Marshes in the North of The Netherlands
185 pairs of δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for aurochs, cattle and sheep bones from the northern Netherlands were studied to establish the influence of salt marsh grazing on bone δ 13 C and δ 15 N values. The observed values proved significantly increased compared to livestock that grazed inland. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of animals grazing former salt marshes were significantly less increased than those grazing the unembanked salt marsh. Absent re…
Making a point
In this contribution, we discuss the nearly two hundred later prehistoric pins from bronze and iron that were found in the Netherlands, and range in date between the Late Neolithic and the Late Iron Age (2200- 250 BCE). For all these pins, we provide information on form, dimensions and decoration, that help to identify local and supra-regional styles in dress-fasteners. Production techniques and compositions of the bronze alloys used are – where …
Parsing prehistoric patterns
Hunter-gatherer populations in northwest Europe were variably affected by Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate fluctuations and their effects on sea level and the environment. We investigate the impact of these fluctuations with a dates-as-data approach to a large radiocarbon dataset. Radiocarbon dates are used as a proxy for past human activity, the intensity, nature and archaeological visibility of which will indirectly influence date densit…
Een bronzen hielbijl uit Emmen
A Bronze Age palstave found at Emmen. In 2019, a Bronze Age palstave was found in a field west of Emmen by a father-and-son team of metal detectorists. In agreement with the landowner, the find was reported to PAN. During the process of conservation, the opportunity presented itself to study the alloy using pXRF analysis. This suggested that the copper ores used in the bronze alloy ultimately derived from Swiss or Slovakian mines, but that the me…
De verdwenen Eems, een participatieproject in het grensgebied
The lost Ems, a participatory project in the border region. Since 2017, the GIA and NLD have conducted joint research into a fossil branch of the river Ems between Landegge (Ldkr. Emsland) and Sellingen (prov. Groningen), where this branch merged with the Runde system as the Ruiten Aa/Westerwoldsche Aa. As its flanking river dunes were intensively exploited by farming communities up to the middle/late Iron Age, this string of settlements became a…
A not so isolated fringe
Using a corpus of over 370 compositional analyses of Dutch Bronze Age and Iron Age (c. 2000 BCE AD 0) copper alloy artefacts, long-term patterns in the types of alloys used for specific bronze objects are identified. As the Low Countries are devoid of copper ores and alloying elements, a combination of typo(chrono)logical and compositional analysis is used to identify through which European contact networks (such as Atlantic, Central European or …
Field systems and later prehistoric land use
This paper discusses how the use of AI (artificial intelligence) detected later prehistoric field systems provides a more reliable base for reconstructing palaeodemographic trends, using the Netherlands as a case study. Despite its long tradition of settlement excavations, models that could be used to reconstruct (changes in) prehistoric land use have been few and often relied on (insufficiently mapped) nodal data points such as settlements and b…
Fossilized fashion and social sparkle. Dutch Bronze Age bracelets in context
This contribution deals with the bronze bracelets found in the Netherlands that are datable between the Late Neolithic and the Middle Iron Age (n=176). We study their context (hoards, funerary contexts, settlements and stray finds), and we relate the specifics of their form and decoration to regional and supraregional traditions. First, we study their role as social signifiers (in reconstructions) of prehistoric identities across those scales, di…
Europe's Early Fieldscapes
Op de schouders van reuzen. De archeologie van Noordwest-Europa
On the shoulders of giants: the archaeology of northwestern Europe. From its founding in 1918, the Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut has carried out research on stone-age hunter-gatherers, the start and the development of prehistoric farming communities, burial mounds and settlements on the sandy soils, and the occupation of the terp-mound district. This article presents the highlights of a century-long research history and identifies current d…
Wat de Yesser nonnen aten
What the Yesser nuns ate: Food consumption in a Cistercian convent in Essen, Groningen. Archaeological research of monasteries primarily focuses on reconstructing the monastic architecture and the use of space, often referring to historical sources. During such research projects, food consumption by the monastics is often neglected in archaeobotanical and -zoological research. This paper presents the results of research carried out on plant and a…
The Fields that Outlived the Celts
The Celtic field research programme of Groningen University involves research excavations of Dutch Celtic fields or raatakkers: embanked field plots thought to date to the Iron Age (c. 800 cal bc –12 bc ). In this paper, detailed attention is given to (a) the palaeoecology of raatakkers; (b) the relationship between habitation and agriculture in such systems; and (c) their dating and use-life. Counter-intuitively, it is argued that the macro-rema…
Palaeo-ecological and archaeological analysis of two Dutch Celtic fields (Zeijen-Noordse Veld and Wekerom-Lunteren)
Celtic fields are the best preserved and most widely distributed type of prehistoric agricultural landscape in the Netherlands, and occur throughout north-western Europe. In this contribution, data from two excavated Dutch Celtic fields are used to explain the process of bank formation and to unravel the agricultural regime of Celtic fields. To this end, traditional archaeological methodologies and geochemical analyses are combined with detailed …
S. Arnoldussen
"S. Arnoldussen: EAA 2015 Glasgow – An impression." Scottish Archaeological Journal, 38(1), pp. 73–74
Christopher Evans with Duncan Mackay & Leo Webley. Borderlands
Christopher Evans with Duncan Mackay & Leo Webley. Borderlands: the archaeology of the Addenbrooke's Environs, South Cambridge (CAU Landscape Archives: New Archaeologies of the Cambridge Region 1). xii+212 pages, 108 illustrations, 50 tables. 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit; 978-0-9544824-7-3 paperback £25. - Volume 83 Issue 322
Towards Familiar Landscapes? On the Nature and Origin of Middle Bronze Age Landscapes in the Netherlands
In many regions in north-west Europe, the Middle Bronze Age is seen as the first period in which a ‘humanly-ordered’ agrarian landscape took shape that has resonance with rural landscapes of historical periods. But what did this ‘ordering’ actually involve? Basing ourselves on a survey of the rich evidence from the Netherlands – including the evidence on everyday settlement sites as well as the use of the non-everyday ‘ritual’ zones in the land –…
Palaeo-ecological and archaeological analysis of two Dutch Celtic fields (Zeijen-Noordse Veld and Wekerom-Lunteren)
Celtic fields are the best preserved and most widely distributed type of prehistoric agricultural landscape in the Netherlands, and occur throughout north-western Europe. In this contribution, data from two excavated Dutch Celtic fields are used to explain the process of bank formation and to unravel the agricultural regime of Celtic fields. To this end, traditional archaeological methodologies and geochemical analyses are combined with detailed …
Towards Familiar Landscapes? On the Nature and Origin of Middle Bronze Age Landscapes in the Netherlands
In many regions in north-west Europe, the Middle Bronze Age is seen as the first period in which a ‘humanly-ordered’ agrarian landscape took shape that has resonance with rural landscapes of historical periods. But what did this ‘ordering’ actually involve? Basing ourselves on a survey of the rich evidence from the Netherlands – including the evidence on everyday settlement sites as well as the use of the non-everyday ‘ritual’ zones in the land –…
Parsing prehistoric patterns
Hunter-gatherer populations in northwest Europe were variably affected by Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate fluctuations and their effects on sea level and the environment. We investigate the impact of these fluctuations with a dates-as-data approach to a large radiocarbon dataset. Radiocarbon dates are used as a proxy for past human activity, the intensity, nature and archaeological visibility of which will indirectly influence date densit…
Field systems and later prehistoric land use
This paper discusses how the use of AI (artificial intelligence) detected later prehistoric field systems provides a more reliable base for reconstructing palaeodemographic trends, using the Netherlands as a case study. Despite its long tradition of settlement excavations, models that could be used to reconstruct (changes in) prehistoric land use have been few and often relied on (insufficiently mapped) nodal data points such as settlements and b…
The Fields that Outlived the Celts
The Celtic field research programme of Groningen University involves research excavations of Dutch Celtic fields or raatakkers: embanked field plots thought to date to the Iron Age (c. 800 cal bc –12 bc ). In this paper, detailed attention is given to (a) the palaeoecology of raatakkers; (b) the relationship between habitation and agriculture in such systems; and (c) their dating and use-life. Counter-intuitively, it is argued that the macro-rema…
High δ 15 N and δ 13 C Values in Aurochs, Cattle and Sheep Bones from Salt Marshes in the North of The Netherlands
185 pairs of δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for aurochs, cattle and sheep bones from the northern Netherlands were studied to establish the influence of salt marsh grazing on bone δ 13 C and δ 15 N values. The observed values proved significantly increased compared to livestock that grazed inland. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of animals grazing former salt marshes were significantly less increased than those grazing the unembanked salt marsh. Absent re…
Towards Familiar Landscapes? On the Nature and Origin of Middle Bronze Age Landscapes in the Netherlands
In many regions in north-west Europe, the Middle Bronze Age is seen as the first period in which a ‘humanly-ordered’ agrarian landscape took shape that has resonance with rural landscapes of historical periods. But what did this ‘ordering’ actually involve? Basing ourselves on a survey of the rich evidence from the Netherlands – including the evidence on everyday settlement sites as well as the use of the non-everyday ‘ritual’ zones in the land –…
Christopher Evans with Duncan Mackay & Leo Webley. Borderlands
Christopher Evans with Duncan Mackay & Leo Webley. Borderlands: the archaeology of the Addenbrooke's Environs, South Cambridge (CAU Landscape Archives: New Archaeologies of the Cambridge Region 1). xii+212 pages, 108 illustrations, 50 tables. 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit; 978-0-9544824-7-3 paperback £25. - Volume 83 Issue 322
S. Arnoldussen
"S. Arnoldussen: EAA 2015 Glasgow – An impression." Scottish Archaeological Journal, 38(1), pp. 73–74
Palaeo-ecological and archaeological analysis of two Dutch Celtic fields (Zeijen-Noordse Veld and Wekerom-Lunteren)
Celtic fields are the best preserved and most widely distributed type of prehistoric agricultural landscape in the Netherlands, and occur throughout north-western Europe. In this contribution, data from two excavated Dutch Celtic fields are used to explain the process of bank formation and to unravel the agricultural regime of Celtic fields. To this end, traditional archaeological methodologies and geochemical analyses are combined with detailed …
Wat de Yesser nonnen aten
What the Yesser nuns ate: Food consumption in a Cistercian convent in Essen, Groningen. Archaeological research of monasteries primarily focuses on reconstructing the monastic architecture and the use of space, often referring to historical sources. During such research projects, food consumption by the monastics is often neglected in archaeobotanical and -zoological research. This paper presents the results of research carried out on plant and a…
The Fields that Outlived the Celts
The Celtic field research programme of Groningen University involves research excavations of Dutch Celtic fields or raatakkers: embanked field plots thought to date to the Iron Age (c. 800 cal bc –12 bc ). In this paper, detailed attention is given to (a) the palaeoecology of raatakkers; (b) the relationship between habitation and agriculture in such systems; and (c) their dating and use-life. Counter-intuitively, it is argued that the macro-rema…
Fossilized fashion and social sparkle. Dutch Bronze Age bracelets in context
This contribution deals with the bronze bracelets found in the Netherlands that are datable between the Late Neolithic and the Middle Iron Age (n=176). We study their context (hoards, funerary contexts, settlements and stray finds), and we relate the specifics of their form and decoration to regional and supraregional traditions. First, we study their role as social signifiers (in reconstructions) of prehistoric identities across those scales, di…
Europe's Early Fieldscapes
Op de schouders van reuzen. De archeologie van Noordwest-Europa
On the shoulders of giants: the archaeology of northwestern Europe. From its founding in 1918, the Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut has carried out research on stone-age hunter-gatherers, the start and the development of prehistoric farming communities, burial mounds and settlements on the sandy soils, and the occupation of the terp-mound district. This article presents the highlights of a century-long research history and identifies current d…
Een bronzen hielbijl uit Emmen
A Bronze Age palstave found at Emmen. In 2019, a Bronze Age palstave was found in a field west of Emmen by a father-and-son team of metal detectorists. In agreement with the landowner, the find was reported to PAN. During the process of conservation, the opportunity presented itself to study the alloy using pXRF analysis. This suggested that the copper ores used in the bronze alloy ultimately derived from Swiss or Slovakian mines, but that the me…
De verdwenen Eems, een participatieproject in het grensgebied
The lost Ems, a participatory project in the border region. Since 2017, the GIA and NLD have conducted joint research into a fossil branch of the river Ems between Landegge (Ldkr. Emsland) and Sellingen (prov. Groningen), where this branch merged with the Runde system as the Ruiten Aa/Westerwoldsche Aa. As its flanking river dunes were intensively exploited by farming communities up to the middle/late Iron Age, this string of settlements became a…
A not so isolated fringe
Using a corpus of over 370 compositional analyses of Dutch Bronze Age and Iron Age (c. 2000 BCE AD 0) copper alloy artefacts, long-term patterns in the types of alloys used for specific bronze objects are identified. As the Low Countries are devoid of copper ores and alloying elements, a combination of typo(chrono)logical and compositional analysis is used to identify through which European contact networks (such as Atlantic, Central European or …
Field systems and later prehistoric land use
This paper discusses how the use of AI (artificial intelligence) detected later prehistoric field systems provides a more reliable base for reconstructing palaeodemographic trends, using the Netherlands as a case study. Despite its long tradition of settlement excavations, models that could be used to reconstruct (changes in) prehistoric land use have been few and often relied on (insufficiently mapped) nodal data points such as settlements and b…
Making a point
In this contribution, we discuss the nearly two hundred later prehistoric pins from bronze and iron that were found in the Netherlands, and range in date between the Late Neolithic and the Late Iron Age (2200- 250 BCE). For all these pins, we provide information on form, dimensions and decoration, that help to identify local and supra-regional styles in dress-fasteners. Production techniques and compositions of the bronze alloys used are – where …
Parsing prehistoric patterns
Hunter-gatherer populations in northwest Europe were variably affected by Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate fluctuations and their effects on sea level and the environment. We investigate the impact of these fluctuations with a dates-as-data approach to a large radiocarbon dataset. Radiocarbon dates are used as a proxy for past human activity, the intensity, nature and archaeological visibility of which will indirectly influence date densit…
High δ 15 N and δ 13 C Values in Aurochs, Cattle and Sheep Bones from Salt Marshes in the North of The Netherlands
185 pairs of δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for aurochs, cattle and sheep bones from the northern Netherlands were studied to establish the influence of salt marsh grazing on bone δ 13 C and δ 15 N values. The observed values proved significantly increased compared to livestock that grazed inland. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of animals grazing former salt marshes were significantly less increased than those grazing the unembanked salt marsh. Absent re…
Before Temples
Elite connections
The Eibergen hoard, discovered in 1982-1983 and donated to Museum De Scheper in 2023, represents a remarkable Late Bronze Age assemblage of tools and ornaments from Eibergen, in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands. Comprising at least 19 objects – including socketed axes, a composite goad, bracelets, hair rings, a necklace spacer, and glass and bronze beads – the hoard reflects a deliberate deposition of elite-connected artefacts. The goa…
Walking down the same old roads? Revisiting Dutch bog trackways (3200 BC-AD 200)
This paper explores the historical and cultural significance of bog trackways in the Netherlands from 3200 BC to AD 200. For three case-study regions, it focuses on the construction, use, and depositions placed near bog trackways — wooden pathways built across marshes and peat bogs that were present in various parts of the Netherlands in prehistory. These trackways are not only seen as functional routes but also as integral parts of the cultural …
Archaeology (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 works) · History (5 works) · Prehistory (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Bronze Age (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Human settlement (4 works)