This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And what can archaeological knowledge contribute to the current discussions about the use, arrangement and depletion of our (local) environment? Contents A life dedicated to science. Portrait of professor emerita Corrie Bakels, pioneer of paleoeconomy Monique van den Dries and Harry Fokkens The Middle Palaeolithic site Lingjing (Xuchang, Henan, China): preliminary new results Thijs van Kolfschoten, Zhanyang Li, Hua Wang and Luc Doyon Neandertal advice for improving your tinder profile: A pilot study using experimental archaeology to test the usefulness of manganese dioxide (MnO2) in Palaeolithic fire-making Andrew C. Sorensen Landscape dynamics near the late Middle Palaeolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic cave site of Les Cottés (France) Joanne Mol, Lars den Boef and Marie Soressi Een ziltige geur ¿ halophytic macroscopic plant remains from Happisburgh Site 1, UK indicating Middle Pleistocene hominin activity in an estuary prior to the Anglian Stage (MIS 12) ice advance Michael H. Field Palaeoenvironment and human occupation patterns: a case study for the first half of the Holocene at Cova Fosca (Eastern Spain) Laura Llorente-Rodríguez, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, María-Teresa Aparicio, Salvador Bailón, Paloma Sevilla and Carmen Sesé Exploring the archaeological heritage of the Uddeler Heegde: an experiment Alexander Verpoorte, David Fontijn and Arjan Louwen Walking and marking the desert: Geoglyphs in arid South America Karsten Lambers Pre-Hispanic and contemporary raw materials use in earthenware production in the Río Mayales subbasin, Chontales, central Nicaragua Simone Casale, Natalia R. Donner, Dennis Braekmans and Alexander Geurds A long slow goodbye ¿ Re-examining the Mesolithic ¿ Neolithic transition (5500 ¿ 2500¿BCE) in the Dutch delta Gerrit L. Dusseldorp and Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz House Societies or societies with houses? Bandkeramik kinship and settlement structure from a Dutch perspective Ivo M. van Wijk and Pieter van de Velde Reflections on an Environmental History of Resistance: State Space and Shatter Zones in Late Antique North Africa Jip Barreveld Fiery forest management: an anthracological approach on the charred remains of medieval Noord-Brabant in Tilburg-Udenhout-Den Bogerd Erica van Hees, Jorinde Pijnnaken-Vroeijenstijn and Marleen van Zon Mysterious medieval manure pits: an indication of urban horticulture? Roos van Oosten, Sander Aerts, Jantine Hos and Erica van Hees