In the course of the Holocene large parts of the Northwest European mainland became
overgrown with peat, only a fraction of which has survived to the present day. The diachronic …

The Drentsche Aa valley system in the glacial sandy landscape of the north-eastern
Netherlands, is one of the many regional drainage systems in the north-western to central …

Bog bodies are among the best-known archaeological finds worldwide. Much of the work on
these often extremely well-preserved human remains has focused on forensics, whereas the …

Carbon-based systems of energy are rapidly unravelling. The imperative of climate
emergency is reshaping energy landscapes, in some instances leading to the reappraisal of …

There is a growing interest in the rescue and reuse of data from past studies (so‐called
legacy data). Data loss is alarming, especially where natural archives are under threat, such …

Recent programmes of dating, forensic examination and landscape studies have
dramatically increased our understanding of well-preserved bog bodies. However, other …

Fascination with the exceptional survival of human remains has been of fundamental
significance cross‐culturally for millennia. This chapter discusses reflections on two …

Peatlands are regarded as having exceptional archaeological value, due to the fact that the
waterlogged conditions of these environments, like other wetlands, can preserve organic …

Data rescue in the geosciences is a field of rapidly growing interest (Wyborn et al., 2015).
Data that has been collected in the past is often referred to as 'legacy'data (Griffin, 2015; …

Selective deposition–the intentional deposition of specific objects at particular locations in
the landscape without the aim to later retrieve these objects–is a widely studied …