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Palaeogeographical map of the northern Netherlands in 100 AD (after Vos 2015: 75, figure 2.10). Yellow = dunes; light green = intertidal areas: sand-and mudflats; blue green = fluvial flood plain and marine salt-marsh areas with levees and ridges; brown = peat. 1 cm = 10.6 km.
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... to this transhumance phase, the salt marsh ridges were the first to be permanently colonised by the people from the Pleistocene hinterland, the habitation in Westergo already starting around 700 BC (Vos & Gerrets 2005: 62). House platforms that gradually grew to the size of dwelling mounds (terps) were constructed on the salt marsh ridges to prevent flooding, the progres- sive colonisation eventually leading to an actual terp landscape ( Bazelmans et al. 2012: 116-118, figure 1). Although flooding did occur regularly, it posed little threat to the inhabitants of the dwelling mounds. ...
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