This special issue is devoted to the theme of social homogamy, i.e. the likelihood of an individual marrying someone with the same social status, in past times. This introduction aims to situate each article within a broader framework of what unites this collection: a h...

Sea-level rise has had a major influence on landscape development in coastal and delta plains throughout the Holocene, resulting in rapidly changing depositional environments and reworking or burial of older deposits. These maps represent The Netherlands during four Hol...

A review of Geschiedenis schrijven! as well as Violet Soens, Geschiedenis is een werkwoord (2016)

Palaeogeographical time series maps provide powerful text figures that narrate the chronological story of landscape change in prehistoric and historic times in a quite accessible way. They inspire and communicate the broad idea of developments quickly, no matter how the...

Arguably, for the continental shelves and deltas around the world that are the major sedimentary sinks over short geological time, the stratigraphically most important change during the Early Holocene was postglacial sea level rise (SLR) and not climatic warming. In the...

The two youngest interglacials, the current Holocene and the Last Interglacial, are very widely geologically studied. Dating techniques such as radiocarbon (for the Holocene) and Uranium/Thorium (for the Last Interglacial) allow quite precise numeric dating. Annually la...