In the early 1960s, a motorway was constructed near Skopje in the Municipality of Gazi Baba. Here, the most significant Neolithic site was discovered of the Skopje valley. Main excavations were executed by the Museum of Macedonia at the end of the 1970s and in the 1980s with beautiful pottery and other Neolithic artefacts coming to light.
Kuralan Kylämäki (Kurala Village Hill) is a division of the Turku Provincial Museum and is owned by the the City of Turku. The purpose is to offer answers for questions concerning ancient living in Finland. Not only do they demonstrate living in the countryside after WWII in a village in SW-Finland, they also demonstrate and research ancient technology and work. This site has been in continuous use from the Iron Age up to present times.
Hvolris is an excursion site where you can find culture, nature and sculpture, plenty to see. It covers the area around a small river valley, of the Skals river. Although the oldest remains date to Stone Age, most archaeological material is Iron Age or younger.
The site Schwarzenbach-Burg in der Buckligen Welt is known between archaeologists since the 1920s. The excavations after 1992, coordinated by Wolfgang Neubauer, are a focal point for VIAS, the Vienna Institute of Archaeological Science. Here at Schwarzenbach an oppidum or Celtic reinforced settlement was built. This project is as interdisciplinary as they get. A watchtower was erected from which you have a great overview over the ex-settlement.
At Mitterkirchen, in the local area called Lehen you will get acquainted with the life back 2700 years ago, in the Iron Age period referred to as the Hallstatt Era. Excavations of about 80 graves took place here in the 1980s leading to the construction of an archaeological open air museum with over 20 houses and workshops. Also, a grave mound has been constructed the way it could have been like in the Iron Age in Mitterkirchen, and it is even accessible. The village is known for its Iron Age pottery and metal object reconstructions.
Near Salzburg (what’s in a name), you will find the world’s first known salt mine. This is one out of three tourist sites going under a common name “Salzwelten”, which partly are in operation as early as 1450. A Celtic village was created 1990 at Salzwelten Hallein near Salzburg to inform visitors about the long tradition, the history and the many facilities of salt and salt mining. Both the local mine and the Celtic Village are well visited. The preservation circumstances for archaeology in this area are perfect.
The Castro de S. Lourenço in the district of Esposende is part of a series of hill forts which controlled the region’s coastal shipping route. The site gives a great panoramic view and control over both the coastal area and the estuary of the Cávado river. The coastal plane is very narrow here and the hill fort is on the last western slopes before the plane. The prehistoric settlement played an important role in both trade and administration. It was in use from the Late Bronze Age up until the 5th century AD. In the Roman Era the architecture/ urbanism of the Castro de S.
The Świętokrzyskie (or Holy Cross) Mountains have been famous for their flint mines of chocolate flint and banded flint since Neolithic times. It was in the 1920s, scientists realised that Krzemionki was the origin with many prehistoric mines still preserved, one of the largest complexes of its kind in Europe.
"Life like it was 4.000 years ago". The Museo delle palafitte del lago di Ledro, dating to 1960, is one of the territorial branches of the Natural Science Museum of Trento, under direction of Dott. Michele Lanzinger. The Museum presents the prehistory from Eneolithic till middle Bronze Age based on own excavations on site. It has an indoor exposition, a park with 4 reconstructed houses and the Ledrolab for education purposes.
The Archeopark at Netolice was financed by INTERREG IIIA in a cooperation with the Archäologisches Erlebnispark Gabreta. The site of the park was an old castle site – an archaeological monument, one of the main centres of power in Southern Bohemia from the 10th to the mid 13th century. The Archaeopark in Netolice is built gradually and with the intention of building a credible presentation of landscape details of this magical place.