
Dick Stapert
Archeologist and quaternary geologist
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De Nieuwe Encyclopedie van Fryslân is een onmisbare aanvulling in de boekenkast voor iedereen die gek is van Fryslân en meer wil weten van deze provincie. Op 15 september 2016 verschijnt de vierdelige encyclopedie die rond de 3000 pagina’s telt, 11.000 trefwoorden bevat en ruim 8 kilo weegt. De encyclopedie staat bomvol actuele kennis over Friesland en is een echte pageturner geworden.
In tegenstelling tot wat snel gedacht wordt bij een encyclopedie is de Nieuwe Encyclopedie van Fryslân niet een stoffig naslagwerk maar inhoudelijk juist heel actueel en modern vormgegeven. Meer dan 200 wetenschappers - de top van verschillende vakgebieden - hebben aan de encyclopedie meegewerkt en uit talrijke bronnen actuele kennis opgedoken. Kennis over Friesland die in veel gevallen online niet te vinden is.
In this paper a ‘bruised blade’ is described: a large blade somewhat more than 13 cm in length, with heavy bifacial damage along one of the edges. The blade was recovered by the late Hendrik Kalsbeek somewhere in the province of Drenthe; the exact findspot is unknown. The blade fits ventrally/dorsally with a second large blade that does not show such heavy damage. Both blades can be described as ‘core-correction blades’: not regular blades but blades that were struck off to remove steps or hinges, in order to allow further successful exploitation of the core. The core from which these blades were obtained had a length of over 16 cm, probably 20 cm or more. On the basis of parallels in northern France and southern England, and the presence of gloss patina, we attribute this remarkable piece to the Late Ahrensburgian. ‘Bruised blades’ are also known from at least one other site in the Netherlands, and from Germany and Denmark as well. In our opinion, sites with bruised blades should not be placed in a separate cultural tradition, the ‘Belloisian’, as advocated by French authors. In this paper also two alleged findspots of the Ahrensburgian in the northern Netherlands are discussed: Sintjohannesga in the province of Friesland and Havelterberg in the province of Drenthe. These entered the literature via the late A.M. Wouters (deceased in 2001). Our conclusion is that these sites never existed; we are dealing here with ‘findspot-forgeries’. Mr Wouters is also associated with many other archaeological forgeries of various types; we suggest that all of his ‘finds’ and ‘sites’ should be removed from our records unless independent sources can prove their authenticity.