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archaeology
is a source of information about the past; our own past, “the here and then” so to say. Who do we want to have been? And how do we “know” that? Archaeology provides us with information about |
| the daily life of the past, of ordinary people, but as well about the very high and very low class people. It is a kind of “monkey watching” and as well: “how did people live back then without electricity, without all the comforts we now have? Were they smarter because they were more inventive with the simple means they had? Or were people back then more backward because they hadn’t invented yet all those things we now ...?” |
| “Who do we want to have been” also counts for the public. We can understand each other better if we know our own backgrounds, also those of our parents and ancestors. Of course we live in the present and not in the past. We can’t relive the past at all, but we can learn from it. Often this is even fun, both for the young and old. The public is very often quite interested, because the past is something personal, something very near. And a presentation with a low threshold is in that case an excellent means to bring the past closer by. |
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Archeo Interface is meaning to link between those who in their daily life work with archaeology and those who are accidentally or professionally interested in the past. Not only an answer to the question “how” did we do that in the past, cooking food, constructing a house, living, but as well: “why” did they do it that way, what was the culture, what used to be obvious in the past but is not anymore now? The past only is useful if it is relevant to the future. |
The current projects of Archeo Interface are:
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