National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden

Curator Prehistory of the Netherlands, Prehistory

Other Affiliations: Leiden University, Archaeology

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About

Luc Amkreutz (1978) studied Prehistory at the University of Leiden. In 2004 he graduated with a study of the earliest farmers in the Netherlands(Linearbandkeramik) and their settlements along the river Meuse. From 2004 to 2008 he was involved in the Malta Harvest project  ‘From Hardinxveld to Noordhoorn - from Forager to Farmer', that, from a broad and multi-disciplinary perspective, analysed the Neolithisation process in the Lower Rhine Area. As part of this project, he focused particularly on the issue of the varying quality of Mesolithic and Neolithic sites and the socio-cultural changes in small-scale communities during the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. Currently he is finishing his PhD thesis  'Negotiating Neolithisation. A long-term perspective on communities in the process of Neolithisation in the Lower Rhine Area (6000-2500 cal BC)'. During his MA and PhD studies he took part in excavations and research into prehistoric sites from various periods (Palaeolithic to metal ages) in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, as well as in Jordan and the Caribbean. From 2008 onwards he has been working at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO) as Curator of the Prehistoric collections.

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