Suddenly, for every liter of water, the equivalent of half a bathtub was surging through the Meuse. Some 150 kilometers downstream, near Lith in North Brabant, the river had calmed somewhat.

The striking image was produced by a team from Ghent University in Belgium and depicts a woman who lived and died in the Meuse river valley, a staggering 5,000 years before Stonehenge was built ...