Material and Tools I thought it would be nice to illustrate the tools. Since I gathered everything I used, expect some unnecessary doubling. As you can see, most of them are "nice to have objects" rather than necessities ... also, welcome to the non-authentic tool collection for home use! ToolsC. Girotto 2020, CC BY-SA 3.0... Continue Reading →
After we have explored the more technical part...now on to the fun part: What garments were worn? Clothing of the Woman from Borum Eshøjby L. Larsen, CC-BY-SA-2.5 Well, we don’t really know. Since no complete garment has survived from the Bronze Age we have to work with analogies and the most contemporaneous evidence available to... Continue Reading →
I recently studied mortality and population curves in T. Waldron's "Counting the Dead" (1994) [for reasons not related to this post]. That got me thinking about how pandemics impact the demographic profile osteologists derive from cemeteries, mass graves, and past populations. But first we must consider what we would expect to see in a 'normal'... Continue Reading →
Please allow me to take you along on my personal journey to reconstruct clothing for a Central European Urnfield Culture (1250 – 800 BCE) lady. Obviously I am not the first person to do this and I am most grateful for my friends at „aurea-aetas - Projekt Urnenfelderkultur/ Bronzezeit Lebendige Geschichte“ who not only introduced... Continue Reading →
