The Netherlands are internationally renowned for the archaeology of its wetland environments. The reclamation of the Flevoland Polders in the early half of the 20th century not only exposed hundreds of shipwrecks but also remnants of prehistoric landscapes and traces of human occupation dating to Mesolithic and Neolithic times. Ultimately this led to the discovery of the Swifterbant Culture in the 1960s1970s and which was initially seen as a Dutch equivalent of the Erteblle Culture. Archaeologi