Palaeolithic

In the last few years, ICOM and its members have reflected upon the following difficult issues. In 2017 the subject for the international museum day was Contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums, and this year it is going to be Museums for equality: Diversity and Inclusion.

Prehistoric Cooking and Frying

Course objective: With the resources from the people of the past a dish from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age is cooked and tasted.

Course objective: Each participant goes home with a rawhide bag.

Course content: scraping the skin when wet, shaping a container, cutting rawhide strings, attaching a handle, drying the container.

Making Fire like in Old Times

Course objective: Each participant creates his own functional fire set.

Forging a Lance or Spear Tip

Course objective: forging an iron lance or spearhead.

Course content: After an introduction to forging technology and the history of thrust and throwing weapons, each participant forges his own lance or spearhead historical model.

Bone and Antler Carving

Course objective: Each participant acquires knowledge and practical skills in bone and antler carving and, under professional guidance, produces an object of choice according to archaeological models using the technical possibilities of the past.

Under the guidance of the experienced archaeologist Jürgen Junkmanns, the participants build a traditional wooden bow or a spear thrower with the associated arrows and spears.

Welcome to the wellness center “Zum Steinzeitkamm”. Here you can experience body and beauty care using methods that are thousands of years old. Forget chia seeds and Goji berries: we show you which superfoods have already been growing with us since the Stone Age and what ingredients our Ancestors used for beauty treatments - natural and soothing. Let yourself be pampered!

During the prehistoric weekend you can see how things were thousands of years ago! In the Mesolithic the stories of the hunters and gatherers are told. You can twine a bracelet at the first jacks. The residents of the Trechterbeker Farm make nettle tea for you to taste.