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Archaeobark


Archaeobark is a research project which aims to create a knowledge base to enable a new understanding of the significance of unretted bark objects in prehistory. This SNSF and DFG funded research project brings together conservators and conservation scientists (HKB-IMIKUK and LEIZA), dendrologists (LAD) and archaeologists (LfA and Leipzig University) to study the identification, conservation and significance of unretted bark objects, with a focus on linden bark.

Bark vessel (find no. 1880) in situ in Linear Pottery well 1188 from Altscherbitz, district of North Saxony. © State Office for Archaeology Saxony. Photograph: Rengert Elburg.





The research project Archaeobark: Identification, Conservation and Significance of Prehistoric Bark Vessels is a project of the Institut Materialität in Kunst und Kultur (IMIKUK) of the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB) in cooperation with the Archaeological Services of the Canton Bern (ADB), Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württenberg, (LfD), Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen (LfA) and Leipzig University. It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).