@inbook{5fd68a2a36fb4860be862bd55ef71240,
title = "Akkeren op de kwelder",
abstract = "This contribution focuses on arable farming in the terps region. It starts with an overview of thoughts and ideas about farming here in a diachronic perspective, showing how an emphasis on the potential difficulties surrounding arable farming on the salt marsh has traditionally led us to underestimate the relative importance of arable farming in the economy. We then proceed to present some results of a crop-growing experiment that took place on the marshes in 2016-2018. The results indicated that soil salinity did indeed play a major role, but that growing crops on the marsh can be very successful. The terps must have supported a true mixed-farming economy, albeit with substantial variation across time and location.",
keywords = "salt marsh, arable farming, experimental archaeology, historical ecology",
author = "Mans Schepers and Christian Smit and Scheepens, {J. F.}",
year = "2023",
language = "Dutch",
isbn = "9789082969146",
series = "Jaarverslagen van de Vereniging voor Terpenonderzoek",
publisher = "Vereniging voor Terpenonderzoek",
pages = "41--52",
editor = "Annet Nieuwhof and Albert Buursma",
booktitle = "Van Drenthe tot aan {\textquoteright}t Wad. Over landschap, archeologie en geschiedenis van Noord-Nederland",
}