Neolithic

Courses: Natural Dyeing, Willow Weaving, Pottery and Flint Knapping

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United Kingdom

___Natural Dyeing workshop

“We are meeting in Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset and going full Medieval! Expect clay pots on the fire, smoke, mysterious decocts...
We will use the three most important dyeing plants: madder, weld and woad. We will see how pH and mordants can influence the colours. We will try overdyeing with woad, hunting for a true green.”

Guided Tour: Herbs and Grains

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Germany

Insights into cultivation and use with Barbara Suchanek-Voget Herbs have been used by humans in a variety of ways for thousands of years. Whether as food, medicine, material or mystical-religious use. But their presence tells us much more. They provide information about the condition of the soil, its use or climatic conditions.

Lecture series: Prehistoric Communities on the Sand

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the Netherlands

In the province of Drenthe, archaeological research has been conducted for over 100 years into the places where people used to live, the settlements. When we study these settlements, it is clear that people shared customs, for example how to build a house or place pottery in the ground as a ritual. Yet

Foraging Workshop

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the Netherlands

Have you always wanted to know what nature has to offer in terms of edibles? Then this is your chance! In 2022 the
Hunebedcentrum organizes our foraging workshops, together with experienced instructors Leah & Tim of 'In het Wilde Weg'. Per season you will be taken into nature and you will learn what there is to eat (and drink), both above and below ground. 

Copper Smelting Could Have Been Discovered in Connection with the Massive Production of Lime Plaster in the Near East During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, which is Much Earlier than Previously Believed

Author(s)
Ulf Fornhammar 1 ✉,
Henry Hammarström 2
Publication Date
A common theory is that copper smelting first appeared in the Near East in close connection with the early pottery industry. However, copper smelting may well have been discovered many times in history and at many places. Our hypothesis is that copper smelting could have been discovered when the copper-bearing mineral malachite, accidentally or intentionally, was present in lime-burning kilns...

Preliminary Observations of Potsherds Rounding in the Estuary of the Morye River – an Analog of Paleo-Okhta

Author(s)
Alexander Akulov 1
Publication Date
One of the arguments proposed for interpreting the Neolithic site of Okhta as a settlement is the fact that potsherds found upon the site show no signs of rounding. Interpretation of the site as a settlement correlates poorly with the geological data, which suggests that, in the Neolithic period, the site was the bottom of a shallow bay of the Littorina Sea into which Paleo-Okhta and Paleo-Tosna flowed...