(p. 1) Professor Anneke Clason died at her home in Haren, near the Dutch city of Groningen, on 7 April 2008, aged 75. Her passing signifies the loss of a passionate advocate of archaeozoology, both in the Netherlands and further afield.

This article presents the results of an extensive coring programme and a test excavation at Wetsingermaar (province of Groningen, the Netherlands). The corings made clear that the archaeological site spans over 1.5 ha and islocated on the waterfront of a submerged Pleistocene ridge. The test excavation yielded ceramics, flints and other stone material, and archaeozoological remains. On the basis of its cultural remains it is concluded that Wetsingermaar constitutes an early site of the Funnel Beaker Culture ( Trichterbecherkultur , TRB), predating the Horizon 1 of Drouwen TRB as defined by Brindley (1988b). This early phase is termed pre-Drouwen TRB (cf. Bakker, 1979: 115). The flint industry is similar to younger TRB assemblages, while the ceramic and archaeozoological evidence is difficult to interpret as a result of the fragmentary condition of the finds and the near absence of contemporaneous sites.

Six bone retouching tools from Mauern (Germany). Six bone retouching tools from Mauern (Ger­many), excavated by A. Bohmers in 1937­1939, are briefly described. They come from Micoquian and/or Leafpoint levels in the Weinberg Caves, and were used as percussion implements in the shaping of flint tools such as leafpoints and scrapers. Two of these derive certainly, and two others probably, from aurochs, and another from horse (three of the bones are femora, one is a tibia and another a metacarpus). All retouching tools will be dated at the Centre of Isotope Research of the University of Groningen. One date is available already, for no. 1946.I.982; GrA­44676: 36,180 +260/­240 BP. This date falls in the first phase of the colonisation of Europe by Homo sapiens.