Archäologische Fundstellen im ostfriesischen Wattenmeer

This study compiles the cultural remains in the East Frisian Wadden Sea and on the East Frisian Islands from the Middle Palaeolithic down to the fourth All Saints’ Flood on 1st Nov. 1570 with its last enormous loss of land. The book begins with an analysis of the data on the development of sea levels and coastlines and of the written sources. Its focus was laid on both a catalogue of finds with more than 150 entries [on the CD-Rom] and on the examination of documentations relating to the archaeological sites. The pottery inventories obtained from settlement sites, which were partly protected by terps or later dikes, are most important as to quantity and as to the determination of the occupation chronology of each place. In a concluding synthesis the results of these three substudies were merged and an attempt was made at a reconstruction of the settlement history of the submerged landscapes. The documented finds comprise stone, metal, and bone objects, coins, and pottery in particular, for the development of which a diachronic overview was thus created at the same time. Some of them are testimonies to long-distance contacts.