the Netherlands

Scraping Seal Skins with Mineral Additives

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Lasse van den Dikkenberg 1 ✉,
Diederik Pomstra 1,
Annelou van Gijn 1
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Neolithic scrapers from the Vlaardingen Culture (3400-2500 BC) display a variety of hide-working traces, amongst which traces interpreted as being the result of contact with dry hide. It has been suggested that, potentially, some of these implements were used to scrape fatty hides with mineral additives. Therefore, a series of experiments...

Where Two Worlds Meet - Living History and Heritage Locations

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Luc Eekhout 1
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The Netherlands have an abundance of heritage locations: museums, monuments, windmills. A favorite pastime of many senior citizens is to take responsibility for this heritage as volunteer guides, amateur historians, and so on. Their traditional contribution to the Dutch heritage sector is tremendous. But at the same time there is a ...

Workshop Sketching Fossils

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the Netherlands

On Wednesday 15 and 22 November, the Hunebed Center will open its registers especially for illustrators! Led by painter Esther Schlebos, a two-day workshop will take place where you will have the opportunity to closely examine and sketch real fossils and faithful replicas.<

The Battle of Grolle

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De Slag om Grolle
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the Netherlands

The Battle of Grolle is a three-day event where visitors go back in time to the year 1627. In the summer of that year, the State army led by Prince Frederik Hendrik arrives for 'the starcke city of Groll'. It is an event that briefly, but very emphatically, places the city at the center of national history. That is why this event is redesigned every two years.