Sowing the seed? Human impact and plant subsistence in Dutch wetlands during the Late Mesolithic and the Early and Middle Neolithic (5500-3400 cal BC).

<p>This data set concerns the data generated during a Ph.D. study in the field of Archaeobotany on the neolithisation process in the Dutch wetlands. The study is part of the research project ‘The Malta Harvest: From Hardinxveld to Noordhoorn - from forager to farmer’, described as 'A new specification of Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic culture and society of the Lower Rhine Basin, 6000-3500 cal BC, in their North European context'. The research project has been performed at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, and was financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).</p><p>The archaeobotanical study deposited is primarily a literature study, based on analysis of published information, databases, published and unpublished reports from a variety of institutes and companies, and unpublished data from the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The primary sources are given in the Ph.D. thesis and the included list of references. The archived data include already published data, new data and new overviews of existing data, including identifications of pollen, seeds, waterlogged wood, wood charcoal and additional sources.</p>