In the Vlaardingen Culture period (3400-2500 BCE) tools were made from a wide range of materials such as flint, wood, bone, and antler. Bone tools were often made using the ‘metapodium technique’. This technique was especially useful when making awls or chisels. Metapodia are long, sturdy, bones in the lower parts of the legs of […]
https://www.puttinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Metapodium-technique.jpg12871793Lasse van den Dikkenberghttps://www.puttinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/putting-life_logo-text-2.pngLasse van den Dikkenberg2024-05-22 14:14:472024-05-22 14:18:27Deer and the metapodium technique
From the 21-23 August ARCHON organised a summer school for experimental archaeology. The summer school was organised in collaboration with the Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses Project. The summer school was held in three different locations, aimed to highlight three major aspects of experimental archaeological research. On the first day a symposium was held […]
https://www.puttinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/371166953_1286057152050691_6768749425404578530_n-1.jpg15362048Lasse van den Dikkenberghttps://www.puttinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/putting-life_logo-text-2.pngLasse van den Dikkenberg2023-09-25 12:24:162023-09-25 12:24:16ARCHON Summer School for Experimental Archaeology
During several periods of the Neolithic, be it the Michelsberger or Vlaardingen period, flint tools to cut cereals are absent in the archaeological record. Could this absence be due to the fact that people cut cereals with other tools? To answer this question an experiment was made in summer 2022 to cut cereals with other […]
https://www.puttinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/putting-life_logo-text-2.png00Tatiana Crombeenhttps://www.puttinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/putting-life_logo-text-2.pngTatiana Crombeen2023-08-18 11:59:212023-08-18 11:59:21Cutting cereals with shells, bone or wood
Deer and the metapodium technique
blogIn the Vlaardingen Culture period (3400-2500 BCE) tools were made from a wide range of materials such as flint, wood, bone, and antler. Bone tools were often made using the ‘metapodium technique’. This technique was especially useful when making awls or chisels. Metapodia are long, sturdy, bones in the lower parts of the legs of […]
ARCHON Summer School for Experimental Archaeology
blogFrom the 21-23 August ARCHON organised a summer school for experimental archaeology. The summer school was organised in collaboration with the Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses Project. The summer school was held in three different locations, aimed to highlight three major aspects of experimental archaeological research. On the first day a symposium was held […]
Cutting cereals with shells, bone or wood
blogDuring several periods of the Neolithic, be it the Michelsberger or Vlaardingen period, flint tools to cut cereals are absent in the archaeological record. Could this absence be due to the fact that people cut cereals with other tools? To answer this question an experiment was made in summer 2022 to cut cereals with other […]