VOORTGEZET ONDERZOEK OP DE MESOLITHISCHE VINDPLAATS NP-3 (GRONINGER VEENKOLONIËN)

Samenvatting

In 1992 further investigations were made in the periphery of the most extensive Mesoli­thic site of the northern Netherlands, situ­ated on a coversand ridge in a former peat reclamation district. This time very detailed sieving was done to outline the concentra­tions of flint waste, of charred hazelnut shells and of hearth-pits, in order to re­search the possibility of a relationship in time and space between the various activi­ties at the edge of the occupation site. Moreover, for the first time thin sections were made of the fill of hearth-pits, to in­vestigate the ancient way of dealing with an abandoned hearth of the 'shaft' type.