- ISSN: 2468-2187
- E-ISSN: 2468-2195
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oa De meanderende Oude Rijn
Reconstructie van de rivierloop in de Romeinse tijd en vroege middeleeuwen
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie, Volume 7, Issue 3, sep. 2022, p. 226 - 243
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- 01 sep. 2022
Samenvatting
The meandering Old Rhine. A reconstruction of the course of the river in the Roman period and the early Middle Ages
Using the knowledge of river processes that control river dimensions and meandering, a reconstruction is made of the river pattern of the Old Rhine between Leiderdorp and Katwijk in the Netherlands. The river pattern changed from a straight river in the Roman period to a meandering river in the early Middle Ages and this pattern was fossilized by the damming of the river at the start of the late Middle Ages. Using archaeological results from the area, the meandering processes are modelled and the archaeological expectations of different areas are assessed. The assessment shows that normally used reconstructions of the development of the Old Rhine delta are inconsistent and that in large areas of the former delta no archaeological finds can be found from prehistoric or Roman times because they were eroded by a meandering river.
