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Bronze Age

The Metals Road

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  • Italy

Free entry today.

DEMONSTRATION: experiments in casting and manufacturing of bronze weapons and tools

WORKSHOP on copper sheet to decorate the armor of warriors (recommended 3-13 years old)

Bread & Mash

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  • Germany

Separating wheat from chaff, grinding grain and backing bread at on open fire or prehistoric oven – Try your hand at Stone Age-style cooking and earn your bread the old-fashioned way.

House Construction

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  • Germany

Felling trees, positioning piles, braiding walls with branches – if you wanted to build a stilt house during the Stone or Bronze Age, you needed a lot of wood, good tools and the right knots – give it a try!

Flint 'n Jewellery

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  • Germany

Fine arrowheads, sharp axes and pretty pearls – experimental archaeologists from Norway and Germany show you the fascinating techniques used in the Stone Age to make important tools - You can even give them a try yourself!

Culinary Weekend

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  • the Netherlands

Pierre Wind is busy both days with insect snacks from prehistoric times, Roman dishes for young and old, to medieval roasts.

Shaping Minoan Clay Tablets and Hanging Nodules: Contributions from Experimental Research and X-radiography

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Ina Berg 1 ✉
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This paper investigates the potential for experimental archaeology and X-radiography to improve our understanding of the manufacture and use of two categories of prehistoric Cretan administrative clay objects: clay tablets and hanging nodules. The results are encouraging: the simple and three-fold tablet shaping techniques can be distinguished confidently, incised writing that was erased can, potentially, be made visible again and...