📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
European Heritage Volunteers
💼 What the programme involves
The European Heritage Volunteers Project will contribute to the ongoing construction of the Open Air Museum, carry out maintenance measures in the open space areas and support the concept of mediation of the Stone Age period to visitors. The works will be carried out in two or three groups, and the volunteers will have the opportunity to alternate during the duration of the project between the particular groups.Basing on results of archaeological excavations in Northern Germany one group will construct a wooden path through a moor while using techniques that had been used in New Stone Age period.Another group will maintain the archaeological heritage sites in the Stone Age Park while planting hedges and constructing hurdle fences to create a natural aeurooeprotection zoneaeuro around the graves, reconstructing a model of a aeurooeconstruction siteaeuro from the Megalith era, repairing paths, cutting grass and similar.Finally, the volunteers will translate the content of information des
🏠 Accommodation on site
shared rooms with beds,warm showers, toilets,The meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that everybody will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if you could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
📍 About the location
The Stone Age Park aeurooeSteinzeitpark Dithmarschenaeuro is an educational structure placed at an archaeological-environmental area of a size of 40 hectares that includes original archaeological heritage sites, environmental open spaces of high diversity and a aeurooeStone Age Villageaeuro in the form of an Open Air Museum. Main aim of the institution is to communicate reflected knowledge about the prehistoric relationship between human beings and environment and to wake understanding for other cultures in time and space. The Stone Age Park aims to create in the long run a cultural landscape from the New Stone Age era 5,000 years ago and to communicate the complex connections of landscape development in the Stone Age as well as the results of the prehistoric research towards a wider public. By using a mostly natural aeuro although landscape architectural steered aeuro development process lasting several decades former corn fields will be converted into an area that provi
ℹ️ Additional information
Motivation letter related to the project and CV photo required