Very cool! I'm glad you finally got a GOOD school trip. And such an interesting place - sounds like a good program, with lots of things for the kids to do, not just reading labels on glass cases.
You remind me: one of my favorite things in my trip back to Denmark years after a school semester spent there was visiting different archaeogical museum sites, including outdoor sites they called "tracks," where you just walked through woods or fields and came across old burial sites or structures that had been relocated to prevent their destruction. The museums worked to find land that would be like the original site, orient the grave or building facing the same direction as before, etc., so the effect is quite natural. And it was late October, so no crowds.
In fact, come to think of it, you might look to Denmark for some more information on daily life in those eras. The Danes themselves are very proud of their long history. Families actually go on wait-lists to spend their vacation living as an Iron Age (?) family in one of the more famous sites. Not "reality TV" style, but actually helping do the research by building and working with tools and using clothing and household implements the way the scientists think the stuff was used. At the end of the season (or whatever period of study), they collect all the stuff and examine the wear patterns to see if it matches the ones on actual artifacts: if so, their theories are confirmed; if not, then they haven't got it figured out yet.
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Date: 2006-04-24 04:13 pm (UTC)You remind me: one of my favorite things in my trip back to Denmark years after a school semester spent there was visiting different archaeogical museum sites, including outdoor sites they called "tracks," where you just walked through woods or fields and came across old burial sites or structures that had been relocated to prevent their destruction. The museums worked to find land that would be like the original site, orient the grave or building facing the same direction as before, etc., so the effect is quite natural. And it was late October, so no crowds.
In fact, come to think of it, you might look to Denmark for some more information on daily life in those eras. The Danes themselves are very proud of their long history. Families actually go on wait-lists to spend their vacation living as an Iron Age (?) family in one of the more famous sites. Not "reality TV" style, but actually helping do the research by building and working with tools and using clothing and household implements the way the scientists think the stuff was used. At the end of the season (or whatever period of study), they collect all the stuff and examine the wear patterns to see if it matches the ones on actual artifacts: if so, their theories are confirmed; if not, then they haven't got it figured out yet.