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  • Bronze Age man inhabited water-logged north

    05/25/2009 2:10:19 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 406+ views
    Radio Netherlands [RNW Translation (mw)] ^ | May 13, 2009 | by Robert Chesal
    New Bronze Age findsSkeletal remains of a young man, dogs' skulls and pottery. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old remains near Enkhuizen, a long-established city to the north of Amsterdam, in a dig that has been going on since January. Until now, experts thought no one could have lived in the area during the Bronze Age because it was too water-logged. They have now been proved wrong.Water managementAround 1,000 BC, water-logged land was a major problem for human settlements in this region in the north of the Netherlands. However, even at this early date, people were taking measures to deal with the...