Archaeobark is a 3 year research project investigating the identification, relevance and conservation of prehistoric Linden bark objects from the 6th millennium BC to the Bronze Age. The goal is to create a knowledge base for a new understanding of the significance of un-retted bark objects in Prehistory. The corpus is an exceptional collection of early bark vessels from Linear Pottery wells and a series of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age cylindrical vessels from Saxony and from circumalpine lakeside settlements in Switzerland. The research encompasses the development of a Linden bark identification key and the investigation of the morphology, the anatomy and the decomposition of contemporary and archaeological Linden bark. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and brings together conservators and conservation scientists (Hochschule der Künste Bern and LEIZA), dendrologists (Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart) and archaeologists (Leipzig University and Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen).

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