Theo Spek
Biographic Data
| ID | 205817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theo Spek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theo |
| FAMILY NAME | Spek |
| SIGNATURE | SPEK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2697-7579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Duck decoys. Their European distribution, construction and functioning, and their regional rise and fall as researched in Fryslân (Northern Netherlands)
Duck decoys are landscape features intended to catch wild ducks for human consumption and the production of down. They generally comprise a pond with a number of dead-end decoy pipes at the edges, where the ducks are lured to and caught, surrounded by a dense grove. The oldest known duck decoy dates from the fifteenth century and originates in Fryslân (Northern Netherlands). This catching method spread across the Netherlands and other countries i…
Mapping Lost Woodland. An Attempt to Use the Spatial Distribution of Woodland-Related Place Names as a Proxy for Localizing Woodland in the Middle Ages
After many centuries, much of Europe is now largely deforested. Today, plans for reforestation are ongoing. These plans have the potential to significantly impact the landscape. As a contribution to the current debate on large-scale reforestation in the Netherlands, we have tried to conduct a quick and overall scan to determine whether the spatial distribution of woodland-related place names can have an evidential value for locating surviving woo…
Archaeological features and absolute dating of historical road tracks in the North-western European Sand Belt: An interdisciplinary case study of a late medieval and early modern trade route at the Ho…
It is very difficult to obtain absolute historical datings of road features found at archaeological excavations. Nevertheless, various physical dating methods have been developed for this purpose, including Optical Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). After a small-scale archaeological campaign, samples from a medieval trading route in the Veluwe area (central Netherlands) on sandy soils have been dated with OSL, in order to compare these with archaeol…
Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries
Commercialisation of resources taken from commons is considered problematic in several ways in traditional commons scholarship. In particular common-pool resource (CPR) theory argues that institutions for collective action such as commons are largely autonomous, experiencing little influence from either the market or the state, and focusing only on the needs of entitled (local) communities. Consequently, commercialisation and sustainable collecti…
Anthropogenic drivers for exceptionally large meander formation during the Late Holocene
Route persistence. Modelling and quantifying historical route-network stability from the Roman period to early-modern times (AD 100–1600): A case study from the Netherlands
Research on route-network stability is rare. In time, due to cultural and/or natural causes, settlement locations and route orientation shift. The nature of these spatial changes sheds light on the complex interaction between settlements and surrounding natural landscape conditions. This study investigates the stability of route networks in the Netherlands during the past two millennia by determining their persistence through time. Environmental,…
Woodland Dynamics as a Result of Settlement Relocation on Pleistocene Sandy Soils in the Netherlands (200 BC–AD 1400)
In this paper we investigate the potential of charcoal kilns as indicators (proxy data) of the interaction between settlement dynamics and the history of woodland presence, composition and structure. The results demonstrate that in our research area (Pleistocene sandy soils of the Netherlands) woodland regeneration and deforestation can be traced by a careful examination of the archaeological remains from charcoal production, provided such remain…
Best travel options: Modelling Roman and early-medieval routes in the Netherlands using a multi-proxy approach
Traditional land-use and nature conservation in European rural landscapes
Formation and Land-Use History of Celticfields in North-West Europe – an Interdisciplinary Case Study at Zeijen, the Netherlands
Celtic field research has so far been strongly focused on prospection and mapping. As a result of this there is a serious lack of knowledge of formation and land-use processes of these fields. This article describes a methodological case study in The Netherlands that may be applied to other European Celtic fields in the future. By interdisciplinary use of pedological, palynological and micromorphological research methods the authors were able to …
Formation and Land-Use History of Celtic Fields in North-West Europe – an Interdisciplinary Case Study at Zeijen, the Netherlands
Celtic field research has so far been strongly focused on prospection and mapping. As a result of this there is a serious lack of knowledge of formation and land-use processes of these fields. This article describes a methodological case study in The Netherlands that may be applied to other European Celtic fields in the future. By interdisciplinary use of pedological, palynological and micromorphological research methods the authors were able to …
Traditional land-use and nature conservation in European rural landscapes
Formation and Land-Use History of Celtic Fields in North-West Europe – an Interdisciplinary Case Study at Zeijen, the Netherlands
Celtic field research has so far been strongly focused on prospection and mapping. As a result of this there is a serious lack of knowledge of formation and land-use processes of these fields. This article describes a methodological case study in The Netherlands that may be applied to other European Celtic fields in the future. By interdisciplinary use of pedological, palynological and micromorphological research methods the authors were able to …
Formation and Land-Use History of Celticfields in North-West Europe – an Interdisciplinary Case Study at Zeijen, the Netherlands
Celtic field research has so far been strongly focused on prospection and mapping. As a result of this there is a serious lack of knowledge of formation and land-use processes of these fields. This article describes a methodological case study in The Netherlands that may be applied to other European Celtic fields in the future. By interdisciplinary use of pedological, palynological and micromorphological research methods the authors were able to …
Best travel options: Modelling Roman and early-medieval routes in the Netherlands using a multi-proxy approach
Woodland Dynamics as a Result of Settlement Relocation on Pleistocene Sandy Soils in the Netherlands (200 BC–AD 1400)
In this paper we investigate the potential of charcoal kilns as indicators (proxy data) of the interaction between settlement dynamics and the history of woodland presence, composition and structure. The results demonstrate that in our research area (Pleistocene sandy soils of the Netherlands) woodland regeneration and deforestation can be traced by a careful examination of the archaeological remains from charcoal production, provided such remain…
Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries
Commercialisation of resources taken from commons is considered problematic in several ways in traditional commons scholarship. In particular common-pool resource (CPR) theory argues that institutions for collective action such as commons are largely autonomous, experiencing little influence from either the market or the state, and focusing only on the needs of entitled (local) communities. Consequently, commercialisation and sustainable collecti…
Anthropogenic drivers for exceptionally large meander formation during the Late Holocene
Formation and Land-Use History of Celticfields in North-West Europe – an Interdisciplinary Case Study at Zeijen, the Netherlands
Celtic field research has so far been strongly focused on prospection and mapping. As a result of this there is a serious lack of knowledge of formation and land-use processes of these fields. This article describes a methodological case study in The Netherlands that may be applied to other European Celtic fields in the future. By interdisciplinary use of pedological, palynological and micromorphological research methods the authors were able to …
Formation and Land-Use History of Celtic Fields in North-West Europe – an Interdisciplinary Case Study at Zeijen, the Netherlands
Celtic field research has so far been strongly focused on prospection and mapping. As a result of this there is a serious lack of knowledge of formation and land-use processes of these fields. This article describes a methodological case study in The Netherlands that may be applied to other European Celtic fields in the future. By interdisciplinary use of pedological, palynological and micromorphological research methods the authors were able to …
Traditional land-use and nature conservation in European rural landscapes
Best travel options: Modelling Roman and early-medieval routes in the Netherlands using a multi-proxy approach
Woodland Dynamics as a Result of Settlement Relocation on Pleistocene Sandy Soils in the Netherlands (200 BC–AD 1400)
In this paper we investigate the potential of charcoal kilns as indicators (proxy data) of the interaction between settlement dynamics and the history of woodland presence, composition and structure. The results demonstrate that in our research area (Pleistocene sandy soils of the Netherlands) woodland regeneration and deforestation can be traced by a careful examination of the archaeological remains from charcoal production, provided such remain…
Route persistence. Modelling and quantifying historical route-network stability from the Roman period to early-modern times (AD 100–1600): A case study from the Netherlands
Research on route-network stability is rare. In time, due to cultural and/or natural causes, settlement locations and route orientation shift. The nature of these spatial changes sheds light on the complex interaction between settlements and surrounding natural landscape conditions. This study investigates the stability of route networks in the Netherlands during the past two millennia by determining their persistence through time. Environmental,…
Anthropogenic drivers for exceptionally large meander formation during the Late Holocene
Archaeological features and absolute dating of historical road tracks in the North-western European Sand Belt: An interdisciplinary case study of a late medieval and early modern trade route at the Ho…
It is very difficult to obtain absolute historical datings of road features found at archaeological excavations. Nevertheless, various physical dating methods have been developed for this purpose, including Optical Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). After a small-scale archaeological campaign, samples from a medieval trading route in the Veluwe area (central Netherlands) on sandy soils have been dated with OSL, in order to compare these with archaeol…
Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries
Commercialisation of resources taken from commons is considered problematic in several ways in traditional commons scholarship. In particular common-pool resource (CPR) theory argues that institutions for collective action such as commons are largely autonomous, experiencing little influence from either the market or the state, and focusing only on the needs of entitled (local) communities. Consequently, commercialisation and sustainable collecti…
Mapping Lost Woodland. An Attempt to Use the Spatial Distribution of Woodland-Related Place Names as a Proxy for Localizing Woodland in the Middle Ages
After many centuries, much of Europe is now largely deforested. Today, plans for reforestation are ongoing. These plans have the potential to significantly impact the landscape. As a contribution to the current debate on large-scale reforestation in the Netherlands, we have tried to conduct a quick and overall scan to determine whether the spatial distribution of woodland-related place names can have an evidential value for locating surviving woo…
Duck decoys. Their European distribution, construction and functioning, and their regional rise and fall as researched in Fryslân (Northern Netherlands)
Duck decoys are landscape features intended to catch wild ducks for human consumption and the production of down. They generally comprise a pond with a number of dead-end decoy pipes at the edges, where the ducks are lured to and caught, surrounded by a dense grove. The oldest known duck decoy dates from the fifteenth century and originates in Fryslân (Northern Netherlands). This catching method spread across the Netherlands and other countries i…
Geography (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 works) · Geology (4 works) · Period (music (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)