Hoek: “The soil layers are comparable to an archive. We know ‘real’ archives from the Middle Ages, from when people wrote something down, but this has been recorded by nature in the layers. This is how the landscape records what happened here and if you If you can read that, you can look much further back in time. Fossil pollen says something about the afforestation here and about agriculture. In the Bronze Age, Iron Age and the Romans, land use was never recorded, but all that data is in the substrate.”
Those who can read the layers of mud will find a beautiful nature archive
