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Understanding Dredging

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Twenty meters under water

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An international symposium, concluded with an excursion to Maasvlakte 2, on the 5th and 6th of March 2015.

More than 12 speakers will present the results of recent interdisciplinary research (geological, archaeological, palaeobotanical, archaeolozoological and paleontological) carried out in relation to the construction of the Maasvlakte 2 port extension into the North Sea near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Culminating in an on-site research 20 meters under water in a drowned landscape, the research produced discoveries of hunter / gatherer’s activities from between 8400 and 6400 BC (Late Preboreal to Early Atlantic).

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