January
26
/ 2023
A throng of more than 6,000 amateur researchers from the heritage organization Erfgoed Gezoeken have spent the last several years examining imagery of the hills, dunes, valleys and forests of the central Netherlands, in search of archaeological and historical anomalies. The efforts of these citizen scientists to uncover more information about the ancient past hit the proverbial mother lode, as the amateur archaeologists discovered the remains of approximately 1,000 prehistoric burial mounds, distributed far and wide across the country’s interior rural landscape. Citizen Scientist Strategy Meets Success Under the auspices of the Erfgoed Gezoeken’s Heritage Wanted project, the citizen researchers concentrated their efforts in an area that includes plenty of unspoiled land, in and around a pair of national parks
