ABSTRACT
The Neolithization process, the cultural change to an economy based primarily on agriculture, is not simply a transformation in prehistory. After a very long period where humans could sustain a living by hunting, gathering and fishing, at some moment a transition to the much more labour-intensive production of food occurred. The Meuse Valley Project is a regional archaeological investigation and is not primarily aimed at excavations and extrapolation of those data to larger areas, but instead attempts to obtain a survey of as many sites as possible over an entire region. The macro region is such a large research area (4500 km2) that it is impossible to obtain archaeological data through individual research, even in a relatively longterm project. The late-Mesolithic distribution pattern displays a relatively even spread, both in the sand and in the loess areas.
