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Culture 2000

European Union

 

From corn crops to Stone Age forests

More than 6000 years ago, man began to shape the cultural landscape in northern Germany. After several hundred thousand years as hunters and collectors man evolved into a "changer" of the natural landscape through first contacts with planting crops and keeping livestock. With this new agricultural way of life, man's formation of the early cultural landscape begins.

The Archaeological-Ecological Centre in Albersdorf (Archäologisch-Ökologische Zentrum Albersdorf - AÖZA) in the Dithmarsch area is trying to re-create the Neolithic scenery. Through a more or less natural development process a 40 ha large area of land shall be turned into terrain reminiscent of the Neolithic landscape.

A very personal landscape experience

Numerous educational programmes offer visitors a chance to better understand the landscape history. On one or more day class trips students and young adults are exposed to a "living image" of the early Stone Age.

Diggers, treasure hunters, thieves

On archaeological paths and during a "Stone Age Rally" children learn about the historic remains of the cultural landscape, namely burial mounds and boulder graves. Kids can also take part in their own excavation in a section set aside and prepared for them. Here the children survey the terrain, can dig and uncover and document archaeological finds and build a "Fundtisch" just like real archaeologists. Beside a thematic introduction to the subjects, practical hands-on experiences are also offered in working with flint stone, cave painting, and dressing leather. Throughout the entire programme the groups are outside on the project's terrain and are exposed to the "old" scenery with its genuine burial mounds and the ancient live stock species. Thus the young visitors are given a most authentic impression of the prehistoric cultural landscape.

 


A group of children on the boulder grave "Brutkamp"

 

Program
Ralley (PDF)
Impressions
Schoolproject
Archaeum
  
design: Kai M. Wurm
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