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Bronze Age

The Metals Road

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  • Italy

Free entry today.

DEMONSTRATION: experiments in casting and manufacturing of bronze weapons and tools

WORKSHOP on copper sheet to decorate the armor of warriors (recommended 3-13 years old)

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

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.

Clusters of plasters - An Experimental Analysis of Plaster Production in Prehistoric Cyprus

Clusters of plasters. An Experimental Analysis of Plaster Production in Prehistoric Cyprus.
Author(s)
Marialucia Amadio 1 ✉,
Luca Bombardieri 1
Publication Date
Two distinct types of plaster were produced in prehistoric Cyprus: the lime plaster and the havara plaster. The latter was obtained by mixing the local secondary limestone (havara) with water, with no pyrotechnological process involved. Because lime plaster and havara plaster have very similar characteristics, archaeologists often struggle to distinguish them in the field. An experimental study was undertaken to produce new data that could aid in examining the manufacturing techniques of prehistoric plaster materials in Cyprus...