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FeedSax, an essential resource exploring Flax’s role during the Medieval Agricultural Revolution
What is the Medieval Agricultural revolution? During the supposed Dark Ages, the population of England grew explosively to rates unseen...
Nov 13, 2023
Year On The Field “Wheat Year” Completion
The Year On The Field project looks back on a successful first crop year from preparation to processing. We learned about diverse...
Jan 20, 2023
The wheat cultivation cycle at the Lauresham Open-Air Lab (Germany) - a "video diary"
The Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory is focusing on educating the public about the Early Middle Ages and is at the same time a research...
Sep 28, 2022
Niederkaina, an Overview of the Burials with Food Remains made of or containing Wheat
The Archäotechnisches Zentrum Welzow e.V. contributes to the Year On The Field with an experimental project about Early Iron Age food,...
Jul 7, 2022
A weedy window on medieval wheat farming
Abstract We have exceedingly little historical evidence for crop husbandry practices in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, prior to the...
Apr 28, 2022
Official Announcement: Flax is the new 'Year On the Field' crop. Call for participants!
Common Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is a very important field crop worldwide and not only provides food (seeds and oil), but also is the...
Apr 1, 2022
Wheat in early medieval England: an archaeological view
Abstract What can we learn about cereal farming in early medieval England? While the subject benefits from the emergence a rich written...
Feb 23, 2022
"Zoom-in" – January on the wheat field at the Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham (Germany)
In the overview recently published on this website, the aim was to illustrate the different weather conditions in January in the growing...
Jan 28, 2022
A wheat seed story - introducing 'A Year On The Field'
The two pictures above could not be more opposite: On the left is a charred wheat grain. It comes from the Neolithic East Mound (7th...
Nov 17, 2021
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