H.M. van der Velde

Henk van der Velde is head of Archaeology of ADC ArcheoProjecten, a Dutch archaeological firm. He is also director of the ADC-Stichting RoelBrandt and affiliated to several universities in the Netherlands and Belgium. He obtained his PhD at the Free University (Amsterdam) on the Long term history of Pleistocene coversand area in the East of the Netherlands (2011). His research stretches from the later Prehistory until the Early Middle Ages.

Key publications

Velde, H.M. van der, 2008: The Early Bronze Age farmstead of Noordwijk, Arnoldussen, S. & H. Fokkens (eds), Bronze Age settlements in the Low Countries, Oxford, 167-175.

Velde, H.M. van der, 2011: Wonen in een grensgebied. Een langetermijngeschiedenis van het Oost-Nederlandse cultuurlandschap (500 v. Chr-1300 na Chr.), Amersfoort.

Velde, H.M. van der & S. Heeren, 2017: On the origins of Dorestad? Habitation of the Kromme Rijn area during the Merovingian Period, S. Semple, C. Orsini & Sîan Mui (eds),Life on the edge: Social, Political and Religious Frontiers in Early Medieval Europe (proceedings of the 63. Sachsensymposium in Durham).

Velde, H.M. van der & G.L. Williams, 2019. Early medieval burial grounds in the East of the Netherlands, Annaert R. et al (eds), Early medieval waterscapes. Risk and opportunities for (im)material exchange ( Neue Studien der Sachsen Forschung 8, 221-234. (proceeding of the Sachsensymposium 2016 in Antwerp).