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Richard
Jansen

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2021

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Jansen, Richard, “Verleden als leidraad: ijzertijdbewoning en landschapsinrichting in noord-oostelijk Noord-Brabant in verleden én heden”, PhD thesis, Universiteit Leiden, 2021. URL: <https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3210297>. 

For a long time it has been thought that habitation and landscape organisation only changed significantly from the Roman Period onwards. However, many developments were already started long before Julius Caesar's Roman armies arrived in the southern Netherlands. The Iron Age landscapes were ordered and structured, contrasting with the still open Bronze Age landscapes. Iron Age people inhabited the same places for generations. At the same time they structured their immediate environment and surroundings resulting in a sustainable organisation and arrangement of the landscape.Recent excavations and (micro-)regional archaeological studies into habitation and landscape organisation, among others in the north-eastern region of the province Noord-Brabant, show that relicts from the past strongly dictated the organisation and structuring of later landscapes. The past in the past formed a guideline (dutch: leidraad) for later (Iron Age) inhabitants.The past can also be a guideline for the design, protection and preservation of contemporary landscapes. This aligns with a trend in which archaeologists are explicitly seeking the connection with present society. Therefore this book ends with a plea for a transition of the Dutch archaeological system in which living heritage can also be a guideline for the present.

For a long time it has been thought that habitation and landscape organisation only changed significantly from the Roman Period onwards. However, many developments were already started long before Julius Caesar's Roman armies arrived in the southern Netherlands. The Iron Age landscapes were ordered and structured, contrasting with the still open Bronze Age landscapes. Iron Age people inhabited the same places for generations. At the same time they structured their immediate environment and surroundings resulting in a sustainable organisation and arrangement of the landscape.Recent excavations and (micro-)regional archaeological studies into habitation and landscape organisation, among others in the north-eastern region of the province Noord-Brabant, show that relicts from the past strongly dictated the organisation and structuring of later landscapes. The past in the past formed a guideline (dutch: leidraad) for later (Iron Age) inhabitants.The past can also be a guideline for the design, protection and preservation of contemporary landscapes. This aligns with a trend in which archaeologists are explicitly seeking the connection with present society. Therefore this book ends with a plea for a transition of the Dutch archaeological system in which living heritage can also be a guideline for the present.

2018

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Leeuwe, Roosje de, and Richard Jansen, “Space becomes a ritualised place. Five Iron Age and Early Roman period presumed cult places in Oss (The Netherlands)”, in: E. A. G. Ball, R. Jansen, E. H. L. D. Norde, and K. M. de Vries (eds), Metaaltijden 5: bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2018. 175–189.
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Jansen, Richard, and Paul van den Helm, “An Iron Age settlement landscape neighbouring the Ha C chieftains’ graves at the Maashorst (N.-Br., The Netherlands)”, in: E. A. G. Ball, R. Jansen, E. H. L. D. Norde, and K. M. de Vries (eds), Metaaltijden 5: bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2018. 191–204.

2013

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Fontijn, David, and Richard Jansen, “The last mound(s) of Zevenbergen: cause, aims, and methods of the 2007 fieldwork campaign”, in: David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013. 15–34.
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Fontijn, David, Richard Jansen, Sasja van der Vaart, Harry Fokkens, and Ivo van Wijk, “Conclusion, the seventh mound of seven mounds: long-term history of the Zevenbergen barrow landscape”, in: David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013. 281–316.
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Jansen, Richard, and Cristian van der Linde, “The physical and archaeological landscape of the Oss-Zevenbergen barrow group”, in: David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013. 35–46.
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Jansen, Richard, and Ivo van Wijk, “Excavating the surroundings of the Oss-Zevenbergen mounds (6 and 7)”, in: David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013. 273–280.
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Fontijn, David, Richard Jansen, Quentin Bourgeois, and Cristian van der Linde, “Excavating the seventh mound”, in: David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013. 69–118.
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Fontijn, David, Richard Jansen, and Sasja van der Vaart, “The urn, bone, and iron from the central find assemblage in mound 7”, in: David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013. 141–150.
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Jansen, Richard, and Liesbeth Smits, “A secondary burial in mound 7: a macabre reuse of the Oss-Zevenbergen barrows in the late medieval period”, in: David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013. 263–268.
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Fontijn, David, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013.  
abstract:
Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event in the life of local communities, for he received an extraordinary funeral, which ended with the construction of an impressive barrow. Based on the meticulous excavation and a range of specialist and comprehensive studies of finds, a prehistoric burial ritual now can be brought to life in surprising detail. An Iron Age community used extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe. This book will discuss how lavishly decorated items were dismantled and taken apart to be connected with the body of the deceased, all to be destroyed by fire. In what appears to be a meaningful pars pro toto ritual, the remains of his body, the pyre, and the objects were searched through and moved about, with various elements being manipulated, intentionally broken, and interred or removed. In essence, a person and a place were transformed through destruction. The book shows how the mourners carefully, almost lovingly covered the funeral remains with a barrow. Attention is also given to another remarkable monument, long mound 6, located immediately adjacent to mound 7. Excavations show how mound 7 was part of an age-old ritual heath landscape that was entirely restructured during the Early Iron Age, when it became the setting for the building of no less than three huge Hallstatt C barrows. Thousands of years later, during the Late Middle Ages, this landscape underwent a complete transformation of meaning when the prehistoric barrows became the scenery for a macabre display of the cadavers of executed criminals.
abstract:
Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event in the life of local communities, for he received an extraordinary funeral, which ended with the construction of an impressive barrow. Based on the meticulous excavation and a range of specialist and comprehensive studies of finds, a prehistoric burial ritual now can be brought to life in surprising detail. An Iron Age community used extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe. This book will discuss how lavishly decorated items were dismantled and taken apart to be connected with the body of the deceased, all to be destroyed by fire. In what appears to be a meaningful pars pro toto ritual, the remains of his body, the pyre, and the objects were searched through and moved about, with various elements being manipulated, intentionally broken, and interred or removed. In essence, a person and a place were transformed through destruction. The book shows how the mourners carefully, almost lovingly covered the funeral remains with a barrow. Attention is also given to another remarkable monument, long mound 6, located immediately adjacent to mound 7. Excavations show how mound 7 was part of an age-old ritual heath landscape that was entirely restructured during the Early Iron Age, when it became the setting for the building of no less than three huge Hallstatt C barrows. Thousands of years later, during the Late Middle Ages, this landscape underwent a complete transformation of meaning when the prehistoric barrows became the scenery for a macabre display of the cadavers of executed criminals.
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Jansen, Richard, Luc Amkreutz, and Sasja van der Vaart, “Preserving and presenting the mounds and finds of Oss-Zevenbergen”, in: David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart, and Richard Jansen [eds], Transformation through destruction. A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013. 317–324.