Wood usage at Dutch Neolithic wetland sites

The wood exploitation strategies of Hekelingen III are compared with those of the Vlaardingen sites of Vlaardingen, Hazendonk and Hellevoetsluis, thus for the first time offering a more general overview of wood exploitation in the Middle and Late Neolithic Vlaardingen group. The new data does not only provide new information for this region and period but also allows a comparison with earlier Mesolithic and Neolithic wetland sites, thus providing long-term information about the development of woodland exploitation throughout the Neolithic. The stable picture also provides a hypothesis about wood exploitation at dryland sites for which data on wood exploitation is hardly available.