"This volume focuses on reconstructing the daily lives of Bronze Age
farmers as well as the landscape for their subsistence practices. Doing
so, Wild West Frisia analyses the separate components comprising Bronze
Age subsistence (i.e. crop and animal husbandry, hunting and gathering)
rather innovatively: instead of summarizing the known data for each
subsistence strategy and drawing conclusions solely based on these
observations, this study first determines what may have been present yet
perhaps is no longer visible. Contrasting this expectation with the
actual archaeological data reveals missing elements, findings for which
include recognizing that wild resource exploitation was perhaps equally
if not more vital to farming life than crop and animal husbandry.
Comparing the case-study area of West Frisia, the Netherlands, with
north-west European coastal communities in general, local variation
appears to be a consistent feature of Bronze Age farming. It can in fact
be regarded as a common feature of subsistence during this time."