A couple of months ago New Zealand archaeologists finished construction on their own version of Stonehenge. [read about it here]. Now this news out of the Netherlands:
Archaeologists have spent two months working on a life-size model of a dolmen or hunebed for the new Hunebedcentrum in Borger (province of Drenthe), which will open its doors to the public in April 2005. The dolmen is a lifesize replica of dolmen D26, which was the last dolmen to be excavated by archaeologists in the Netherlands.
The reconstruction in the new museum shows what the dolmen would have looked like when it was built, around 3400 BC. The large grey stones were covered with earth and grass. Inside the burial chamber visitors can smell the odour of decay, see human bones and gifts for the dead. The reconstruction will be the centrepiece in the museum's exhibition about dolmens.
If you don't have an authentic spectacular artifact to show the public, make one yourselves. And don't forget to spice it up with the odor of human remanins and a few bones here and there. After all, the name of the game in archaeology is public relations, not science.
Read about it here.
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