https://www.offa-journal.org/index.php/jna <p>The Journal of Neolithic Archaeology provides a scientific information platform on the archaeology of the Neolithic period. The articles are mainly in German and English, and for all articles English summaries and figure captions are available.</p> <p>The Journal was originally founded in 1999 as a pioneering web-based open access online journal. Since 2003, the Journal has been edited by an international team of archaeologists.</p> <p>This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no publication fee charged.</p> Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, CAU Kiel en-US Journal of Neolithic Archaeology 2364-3676 <p>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:<br><br></p> <p>– Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_new">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> <p>– Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</p> <p>– Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See&nbsp;<a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</p> https://www.offa-journal.org/index.php/jna/article/view/1670 <p>In 2021, the PR7 timber trackway across the raised bog at Diepholz, Lower Saxony, was re-examined. It can now be dated securely by Bayesian modelling to the second half of the 25th century BCE, obviously contemporary with smaller camps in the microregion. The necessity to construct a trackway seems to coincide with a shift to wetter conditions in the northern Lake Dümmer lowland region and towards more diverse settlement pattern. The comparison of our results with trackways and environmental developments in the Campemoor south of the Dümmer indicates temporal differences in the reaction of local ecosystems to general climatic changes as well as in the trackway construction. In spite of that, on a macro level construction peaks of trackways in the northern European plain are identified, which should be analysed further in respect to environmental and societal changes.</p> Ann-Katrin Klein Jan Piet Brozio Ingo Feeser John Meadows Marion Heumüller Henry Skorna Tim Schroedter Lisa Shindo Helene Agerskov Rose Johannes Müller Copyright (c) 2026 Ann-Katrin Klein, Jan Piet Brozio, Ingo Feeser, John Meadows, Marion Heumüller, Henry Skorna, Tim Schroedter, Lisa Shindo, Helene Agerskov Rose, Johannes Müller https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2026-02-18 2026-02-18 1–36 1–36 10.12766/jna.2026.1