A matter of mind and matter: Applying theories on material agency and mind-set to the objects of the Vlaardingen Culture in the Western, Central and Southern Netherlands

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Archaeology (MA/MSc)

Huiskamp, Roald (2016)

A matter of mind and matter: Applying theories on material agency and mind-set to the objects of the Vlaardingen Culture in the Western, Central and Southern Netherlands

Master thesis | Archaeology (MA/MSc)

In this thesis I have applied 2 theoretical frameworks to the Vlaardingen Culture: the material engagement theory and the notion of a Neolithic mind-set. The Vlaardingen Culture is an archaeological culture that takes part in the Neolithisation process of the Netherlands, which can be summarized as the transformation into the Neolithic period. I have chosen to combine the two mentioned theoretical frameworks in order to analyse the different world-views of the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. The Vlaardingen period (3400-2500 BCE) is considered to be an intermediate phase in the Neolithisation period, where people are neither fully Mesolithic or Neolithic. This group is characterized by the fact that their food economy and their degree sedentism share traits of a Mesolithic and a Neolithic way of life.

Vlaardingen

Material Engagement theory