Understanding the past : a matter of surface-area : acts of the XIIIth session of the EAA Congress, Zadar 2007 / edited by Geertrui Blancquaert ... [et al.]

Includes bibliographical references

Large "surface-area" archaeological operations in North Western Europe. A historical overview through Eastern France examples / Jan Vanmoerkerke -- The methodology of rescue excavations on large area and linear construction projects in Moravia / Jaroslav Peška and Vendula Vránová -- Large-scale archaeology projects in Saxony, Germany / Harald Stäuble, Christophe Steinmann and Patricia de Vries -- The pattern of agricultural activities in the Norman countryside (2500-30 BC) as seen through preventive excavations on the south side of Caen / Benjamin Van den Bossche and Cyril Marcigny -- Beware of the known. Methodological issues in the detection of low density rural occupation in large-surface archaeological landscape-assessment in Northern-Flanders (Belgium) / Wim De Clercq ... [et al.] -- Archaeological interventions on linear and extensive earth-moving works: what scientific value? A close look at the second Iron Age / François Malrain and Geertrui Blancquaert -- Rescue archaeology initiated by research -- a contradiction in terms? (Håkon Glørstad and Karl Kallhovd -- An extensive surface project at Aube Logistics Park (France): the methods and initial scientific results / Vincent Riquier and Julien Grisard -- Organizing archaeological research during major roadworks: the issues, constraints and principal results of the A85 and A19 motorway excavations (in the Centre Region of France) and the example of an extensive excavation on the Sublaines site / Thibaud Guiot and Eric Frénée)