Index Dutch Bronze Age
Index first farmers in the Netherlands
Images of the past
Odoorn, about 2400 B.C.E., early Bell Beaker
Blowing a horn
Various flint tools, made by a professional Belgian flint specialist
Bodensee, Switzerland, Conical "basketry" straw hat made from bast fibres and sandal with a woven sole
Below: catamaran mesolithic canoo, an imaginary reconstruction
A reconstructed cooking bag, made from a cow's skin
A cooking bag, close up; it's better to fold the edge INTO the bag
Objects from a leather bag in a Danish grave at Hvidegard:
a flint knife stiched in a bladder, bronze knife in a leather case, bronze razor in a wrapping, tail of a snake, small leather case with a jaw of a squirrel, bronze tweezers
Skinning a large rat to make a small bag (Eindhoven, 1996)
Skinning a rat
A young boy, learning how to skin
Ötzi, the glacier man from Austria (3500 B.C.E.):
a) His body
b) This is what he and his outfit might have looked like:
c) The 99% copper axe from Ötzi
d) His body, close up
