Chalcolithic

The 50th anniversary of „Lions Club Willisau“ in the municipality of Wauwil, near Luzern needed to be marked with a landmark celebration and an interesting and useful project. The village Wauwil counts about 1600 inhabitants. In 2002, at the Wauwiler moor, a bird watch tower was built thanks to a large investment of time and money of the Lions Club.

The Laténium park & museum (“Parc et musée d’archéologie de Neuchâtel“) houses one of the most important archaeological collections of Switzerland and is named after the famous Iron Age era (6th – 5th century BC). It is the official cantonal archaeological museum and also houses the Neuchâtel cantonal archaeological department.

The Świętokrzyskie (or Holy Cross) Mountains have been famous for their flint mines of chocolate flint and banded flint since Neolithic times. It was in the 1920s, scientists realised that Krzemionki was the origin with many prehistoric mines still preserved, one of the largest complexes of its kind in Europe.

The archaeological faculty of the University of Århus is situated in the old mansion Moesgård. It is well located, away from the city but not too far and surrounded by a forest like park adjacent to the beach. The 18th century Manor House of Moesgård is also home to an important archaeological and ethnographic museum. The permanent exhibition presents many unique archaeological finds from prehistoric Denmark.

1997, Northeast Scotland saw the birth of a new archaeological open-air museum: Archaeolink. Goal is to interpret the Prehistory of NE Scotland via living history, craft/technology demonstrations and archaeological experimentation for the benefit of the general public, academia and the educational sector.

At Lake Iseo, the large theme park “Archeopark Darfo Boario Terme” is placed where crafts demonstrations and house reconstructions are the main attractions.

For a BBC movie about Lough Gur, one of the Neolithic houses was reconstructed but already in 1990 was long gone. Nothing reminded of the reconstructed dwelling (Ahrens 1980, 91-92).

The University of Milano had conducted excavations near Latium. The Gli Albori Association decided to construct a village based on that Neolithic up to Iron Age excavations, in Tuscany.

The area of Blicquy-Aubechies is near the source of the River Dender in Hainaut. This has been a pleasant region to settle for centuries. Excavations have produced a clear image of what happened here since about 5000 BC.

The Samara, an environmental and reconstruction park was realised by the Ministry of Culture, the Picardy province and the bank Credit Agricole. It had a predecessor at the Val d’Aisne. One of the reasons to establish this museum was the creation of employment by means of tourism – the Somme area has a long history of unemployment.