Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 172-188Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12333
Keywords
Maritime cultural landscape; interdisciplinary approach; drowned settlements; maritime erosion; Noordoostpolder; late Middle Ages; sea-level change
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- Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [322-60-006]
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This paper examines the theory and practice of the maritime cultural landscape in general, and projects the theoretical concepts and aspects involved on the highly dynamic late medieval north-eastern Zuiderzee region in the Netherlands. The cultivation of land and marine erosion (floods and rising sea level) are considered as the main factors that caused the transformation of the physical landscape of this region from peatlands with freshwater basins into a tidal lagoon. As a consequence, multiple settlements drowned, large areas of land submerged, and culture and the landscape gradually became more maritime, giving the research area a cultural identity and dimension.
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