Cancelled: Friends of Archeology - Guided tours of the Prehistoric Garden

The Friends of Archeology invites to the interesting and exciting guided Tour in Attersee am Attersee during the summer monthes.

• Tour with guided tour through the prehistoric garden gives an overview of the plants in prehistory!
• We give detailed insight into the plant world of the World Heritage Sites in the Salzkammergut, especially at Lake Attersee.
• What was the importance of these useful plants for people in the Neolithic Age, Bronze Age / Hallstatt period to early Iron Age / Roman period (ca 6,000 - 300 BC) in terms of nutrition, medicine and dyeing textiles?
• Nutrition: The primitive wheats emmer and einkorn, followed by barley and spelt served as carbohydrate suppliers. Suppliers of protein and fatty oils in Central Europe were hazelnuts, accompanied by sugary fruits such as elderberry, wild strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, blueberry, rosehip and crab apple.
• Medicinal needs were met with the plants chamomile, yarrow, flax, comfrey, coltsfoot and butterbur.
• Dyeing substances from dyer plants were obtained from the dyer plants woad, dyer's madder, dyer's woad and dyer's chamomile to give the textiles flax, raffia and linen the appropriate color. Further information about the application of the dyer plants is offered in corresponding WORKSHOPS - DYING WITH NATURAL DYES.

Entrance fee per person: Euro 5,00