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Chalcolithic

Bone Tool Making Workshop with Wulf Hein

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  • Germany

A bone tool-making Workshop with expert Wulf Hein will take place in September 2018 at the "Zeiteninsel" in Niederweimar-Argenstein. The participants will get to know the stone age techniques and will work with authentic tools and materials. Afterwards they can make their own arrowhead, a fishing hook or even a stone age figurine.
Course suitable for age 12+. 

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.

Black Ash - a Forgotten Domestication Trait in Garden Orach (Atriplex hortensis L.)

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Lutz Zwiebel 1 ✉
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Garden Orach (Atriplex hortensis L.) is a vegetable plant of minor importance but with a wide distribution throughout the Old World and beyond. Previous research revealed its diverse medicinal and magical importance in prehistory. Here, Orach’s special ability to retain sodium even in non-saline ground is introduced. The outstandingly high concentrations of sodium in dry plant matter and plant ash suggest its use as a salt substitute, manifested in an early domestication trait. Special attention is paid to the variability of this trait in cultivars from different geographic regions and within the genus Atriplex. ..