The human habitation and archaeology of the coastal wetlands cannot be properly understood without considering the landscape. What boundaries did the landscape set for human habitation, and what possibilities did it offer? How did people create places to live, and a sense of place and belonging? How did they shape their lives? Were they connected to other communities? How resilient and flexible were they when natural or other circumstances changed? And what lay behind the small-scale and large-scale migrations in different periods in the first millennium? Were these driven by push or by pull factors, and were these natural, social or political? And last but not least: how can archaeological finds and methods help us understand what happened in the past? This volume contains 15 papers addressing these questions from different angles. They were presented at the 72nd meeting of the Internationales Sachsensymposion in Castricum in the Netherlands, in October 2021. The theme of the conference (and the title of this book) was Making Places, Making Lives. Landscape and Settlement in Coastal Wetlands. The first part of the book focuses on the coastal province of North-Holland in the first millennium; then the perspective widens, including sites from the Celtic Sea to the Baltic Sea, and extending to the later Middle Ages and early-modern period.