The heavy storms in February and March this year damaged one of the Stone Age houses at Masamuda. In order to repair the house, that was originally built with Stone Age tools, members of the Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses team joined forces under the supervision of Leo Wolterbeek and started the reparation of […]
Vlaardingen Culture sites often yield large quantities of polished axe fragments, and occasionally even complete axes are found. Microscopic analysis of these axes and notably these axe fragments indicated that there were marked differences in the production traces which could be observed. This came as a surprise because all these axes were imported from far […]
https://www.puttinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/3327_M1_MetD_loc1_20x.jpg18912536Lasse van den Dikkenberghttps://www.puttinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/putting-life_logo-text-2.pngLasse van den Dikkenberg2022-04-19 10:30:002022-04-22 18:06:27How to finish your axes? Experiments with the final stages of the production of polished flint axes
In December 2021 a number of researchers of the ‘Putting Life into Late Neolithic houses’ project gathered in Masamuda for the first series of cooking experiments. Cooking and food preparation was most likely an important part of the daily life of the Vlaardingen people and as we are fascinated by the details of their life, […]
Neolithic House repair
blogThe heavy storms in February and March this year damaged one of the Stone Age houses at Masamuda. In order to repair the house, that was originally built with Stone Age tools, members of the Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses team joined forces under the supervision of Leo Wolterbeek and started the reparation of […]
How to finish your axes? Experiments with the final stages of the production of polished flint axes
blogVlaardingen Culture sites often yield large quantities of polished axe fragments, and occasionally even complete axes are found. Microscopic analysis of these axes and notably these axe fragments indicated that there were marked differences in the production traces which could be observed. This came as a surprise because all these axes were imported from far […]
Cooking experiments
blogIn December 2021 a number of researchers of the ‘Putting Life into Late Neolithic houses’ project gathered in Masamuda for the first series of cooking experiments. Cooking and food preparation was most likely an important part of the daily life of the Vlaardingen people and as we are fascinated by the details of their life, […]