Stone-Age Giants
What inspired people to move large objects? Some 5,500 years ago, our ancestors began to shape erratic blocks and use them to construct giant monuments. The archaeologists at CAU Kiel working with Professor Müller and at the RGK in Frankfurt working with Professor Lüth assume that both human cohabitation and human thought underwent a fundamental change at the same time. Did these structures, made of megaliths, serve as gravesites, as meeting points or were they intended to serve as markers on the open landscape? What can the stone legacies tell us about social differences within Neolithic mankind?
Wacker!
Going back into the past with a pneumatic hammer. Today the researches are getting down to the bottom of climate change – and they’re doing so with the help of the sediments deposited on the sea bed over the course of the millennia. From this sediment they hope to find out whether changes in the climate in the Neolithic period sparked off rapid cultural change. They are drilling from a raft, which turns out to be a rather unsteady business, and it turns out that the passage of time didn’t make it easy for them either. The deeper they drill, the harder it gets. Will the Wacker, a kind of pneumatic hammer, help?
At a glance
The Ravages of Time
Not going unnoticed by the archaeologists: the large stone graves in the far North. The number of megalithic graves has declined strongly.Fishing by Camera
The challenges at the megalithic grave are "megalithic"! To get the right perspective on things, the researchers want to reach great heights. Will their home-made camera rod help?Looking Beyond
You are what you eat! What can the remains of plants and corn tell us about life 5500 years ago – and about the eating habits and lifestyle of long ago?At the "Königsgrab"
How the archaeologists can see underground without a spade, a trowel or a brush and without moving a single clod of earth, with a little help from a geophysicist.Working to the Bone
Even the tiniest of teeth counts: What can bones tell us about burial rites from 5,500 years ago?The Trail of the Bones
Which illnesses were prevalent 5500 years ago, and what were they caused by? The trail of the bones will reveal all…Wacker!
Going back into the past with a pneumatic hammer. What secrets about climate change can be found on the sea bed?Wolkenwehe
Stones, bones and wooden posts: Looking for clues in the Brenner bog. Is there a connection between the settlement of Wolkenwehe and the megalithic graves?The Stone Age Code
Where the archaeologists come up against their limits, molecular genetics can come to the rescue. From the remains of Stone Age man, they aim to take a genetic fingerprint…A Researcher’s Puzzle
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