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Culinary Weekend

Culinary Weekend
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Country

  • 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.)

Black Ash - a Forgotten Domestication Trait in Garden Orach (Atriplex hortensis L.)
Author(s)
Lutz Zwiebel 1 鉁
Publication Date

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鈥檚 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. ..

Ancient Arts and Crafts Market

Ancient Arts and Crafts Market
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Country

  • Germany

On Saturday, August 31st, 2024 and on Sunday, September 1st, 2024, a special kind of crafts market will take place in the Dithmarschen Stone Age Park in Albersdorf from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.: On these two days, ancient crafts and arts will be presented in the area the 鈥淶eitenwiese鈥 near the Mesolithic hut settlement.

Knowing the Drill: Investigating Mesolithic Perforation Technologies Through Experiment, Traceology, and Photogrammetry

Knowing the Drill: Investigating Mesolithic Perforation Technologies Through Experiment, Traceology, and Photogrammetry
Author(s)
Andrew Fitches 1 鉁,
 Ben Elliott 2
Publication Date
Perforations observed in artefacts, such as heavy tools, made from red deer antler indicate that Mesolithic people possessed various means for making holes in osseous materials. Nevertheless, prehistoric perforation technologies are relatively poorly understood. This study argues that a lack of systematic experimental-traceological work, compounded by...

Symposium: Experimental Archaeology Study on the Research of Magnetic Instrument Technology

Symposium: Experimental Archaeology Study on the Research of Magnetic Instrument Technology
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Organised by
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

Country

  • Japan

An experimental archaeological approach to the restoration of stoneware techniques such as stonemaking and use is important, but in recent years, a more diverse and extensive experimental programme has been incorporated into research. At the same time, it means that the methodological positioning of experimental archaeology in stone study is also diversifying.

A Scheme of Evolution for Throwing Sticks

Author(s)
Luc Bordes 1 鉁
Publication Date
Prehistoric wooden projectiles likely have a complex evolutionary story in a similar way to stone tools, depending on their functions, and the cognitive and physical capabilities of hominins who used them. The technologies of some ancient projectiles (e.g., spears, arrows) can be studied more directly because they were equipped with...