On Saturday, July 6th, 2024 and Sunday, July 7th, 2024, a “reindeer hunter” (and museum educator) will live and work for the first time in the Dithmarschen Stone Age Park in Albersdorf. 

During the opening hours from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., archaeologist Svenja Beckmann will report at the Reindeer Hunter Square (see attached photo!) about the life of hunters, gatherers and fishermen at the end of the Ice Age around 12,000 years ago, when people, among other things, followed the large herds of reindeer that lived in northern Germany at the time. Important archaeological sites such as Stellmoor from the Ahrensburg Tunnel Valley near Hamburg (from where corresponding original finds can also be seen in the “Stone Age House” museum) are presented as the basis for the reconstruction and the early history of humans and dogs - the oldest domestic animal and companion of humans - told. 

As a special hands-on activity, there is the making of necklace pendants or beads, which are not only available at the reindeer hunters' camp, but can also be combined with other beads from other times (e.g. at the Mesolithic camp and in the Neolithic farming village), so that the guests After their tour of the Stone Age Park, they will have put together a pearl necklace “from different eras”. 

Welcome “to the late Paleolithic”!