It's time to throw some unsorted links at you again. Most of the stuff is in German - sorry for those of you who don't read it, but they are just too interesting to pass them up.
Anke Domaske is making fibres from milk that is leftover and spoiled - a brilliant example of upcycling, to put it that way. The fibres are versatile, and are getting used in a variety of ways already. (Article in German.)
Archäologentage 2018 are taking place April 12-15, and the topic is Migration. More information can be found here (info material in German and French).
Christa Schwab has tried to find out a good mixture for making a vegetarian sausage after a medieval recipe. You can read more about what she did, and how it worked,
over at her blog (in German, but with pictures).
More food-related stuff -
remains of Iron-Age feasting, or at least eating, have been found at the Cairns broch, Orkney, Scotland.
Not recent, but still interesting:
an article about traditional Icelandic embroidery, via Medievalists.net.
It looks like there
might be a cure for the Varroa mite problem that is threatening the European Honey Bees - I do hope that this will be a full success. (Article is in German.)
Sometimes, your colleagues have surprising hobbies - one of my archaeology colleagues, for instance, writes music and sings. In this case, an
eulogy on a house from 1534 that was recently demolished. It's in English, too.
Also in English:
Some new research on one of the tablet-woven bands from Hallstatt (Halltex 152) by Maikki Karisto, together with Mervi Pasanen and Karina Grömer. Mervi's blogpost includes the new pattern draft.
Textilis has a
study of knitting sheaths from North Yorkshire.
And that's it for today - finally a few less tabs open in the brower!