The Brabant former priest Ad Wouters (1917-2001) grew during his life into an authority among amateur archaeologists when it came to the Stone Age. He built up a reputation as a connoisseur from the 1950s. Stone artifacts were his specialty.
He had not followed an academic education, but he had gained his knowledge from literature and during visits to private Stone Age collections, especially in the province of Limburg. In 1975, Wouters acted as a defender in the lawsuit against Tjerk Vermaning, who was suspected of fraud.
In the book, the authors discuss eleven sites in which Wouters was involved. Often it concerns discoveries claimed by himself or places that he supplements with objects from his own stock, it is concluded in the book: “In all cases it concerns at least suspicious sites and finds, often even forgeries.”
The nine authors further state that Wouters has been given ‘a sad place’ in the archaeological history of the Dutch Stone Age. ‘In our research we must remain constantly aware that his Stone Age and what he has published about it are not true.’