Tuesday, October 30, 2007

On 20 september we wen to the museum again. There was some stone age stuff going on there. It was about how beads used to be made, about the war painting which people thought was done with woad, but recent research has showed that this was probably not true, it was more likely used to clean wounds and close them quickly. It was definitely not used as tattoos, as it really burns wounds clean.
Unless they had a very different recipe that the one known to us.
Furthermore there was a lot to learn about which vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices came to our end of the world at which time. A lot of what we eat now, wasn't there 1.000 to 2.000 years ago.
Slowly the exhibition went from Stone Age to about 50 years ago, it was very interesting.

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