Volume 41 of the series Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region includes seven contributions on various aspects of settlement and landscape genesis in northern and north-western Germany. The chronological focus is placed on the first millennium A.D., when the North Sea coast formed part of inter-regional communication routes. The studies presented in this volume are concerned with very different kinds of find inventories, ranging from locally-made and imported ceramic artefacts to textiles, and also including remains of shells and snails, which have so far been little studied, at least as far as early historical contexts are concerned. These contributions are complemented by an article presenting the results of a major research project on the late Mesolithic and early Neolithic use of the Zwischenahner Meer, distr. Ammerland, the third largest lake in the federal state of Lower Saxony. At the time it formed a contact zone between the loess-based Linear Pottery farmers, the Ertebølle Culture of the Baltic area and the Swifterbant Culture based in the Dutch wetlands.weiterlesen