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“A ship will come!” The large outrigger canoe of the Association for Experimental Archaeology and Research Chemnitz e.V. has been anchored in Hoheneck since this week. The exhibition concept envisages other prehistoric sea vehicles at the foot of the Ore Mountains. A comprehensive accompanying exhibition with an adventure cinema will follow. However, it is still unclear when.
Der Oberbürgermeister Marcel Schmidt steht mit Dr. Dominique Görlitz dem Moderator Frank Engelmann alias „Frank Stoner“ Rede und Antwort. Er hat sich seit 2016 für die Realisierung dieser Wissenschaft in Stollberg für ABORA eingesetzt.
A first look into the light-flooded exhibition hall. The more than 850 m² hall and a special exhibition area on the 5th floor still need to be filled with life, or rather with "history". The renovated roof structure, but also the maritime paintwork of the exhibition hall invite you to dream and explore.
Before the small press conference, the ABORA team had to rig the large outrigger canoe. It is an extended dugout canoe (pirogue). The watercraft was hoisted into the exhibition hall with a large crane already in 2019.
Along with rafts, dugout canoes are among the oldest known watercraft. Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period. Here the curator presents the mayor important details about this type of boat.
If the roof trusses didn't block the view, you'd think the outrigger canoe was about to set off at any moment. But the experimental trips took place on the Baltic Sea in the 1990s. The experiences and experiences from these experiments can be seen in the exhibition in the future.
Of course, the ABORA experiments and the expedition films resulting from them will also take up a lot of space here. They form the core of the ABORA team. The model of the ABORA III on display here was made by famous Aymara boat builders on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. Once the financing is secured, they will also build a large model in the hall.
The group photo shows all the protagonists and guests of the ABORA team. Without teamwork, the ABORA project would not have been possible anyway. Our thanks go not only to the town of Stollberg, but also to Dr. Bernd Hentschel (HENKA GmbH) and Frank Rocktäuschel (WavLex GmbH); both on the far right. They are entrepreneurs from Stollberg and have been supporting ABORA for several years.
As the saying goes: “Good things come to those who wait.” This also seems to be the case in the “Areal Stalburc-Hoheneck” (formerly Hoheneck Castle) in the Ore Mountains town of Stollberg. After years of wrangling over funding, permits and the difficult construction work, the foundation stone has been laid for the ABORA team to move into the exhibition area. The more than 850 m² exhibition area has been painted and shines magnificently in the attic of the east wing. This week the first inspection after completion took place with the mayor Marcel Schmidt accompanied by our Nuoviso team from Leipzig.
With the construction of the new ABORA Science Centre for prehistoric seafaring, archaeology and ancient mining in the Areal Stalburc-Hoheneck, the town of Stollberg wants to break new ground. Presenting these topics, with all their historical, technical and mining-historical dimensions, in an exhibition is an important cultural-historical and therefore political task. However, these topics are not sufficiently anchored in the consciousness of our society. By examining the contribution of early seafaring, migration and trade to exploring the world, as well as the emergence of Saxon-Bohemian mining from its prehistoric roots to the present day, the museum will make a contribution that will fit into the existing "Ore Mountains Region" tourism concept.
The first large boat model was specially prepared for this presentation to give viewers of Nuoviso and ABORA TV an idea of this new setting. Further prehistoric reconstructions are planned, which will also create a mental connection to the pre-antique long-distance tin-bronze trade. Most Germans are not aware of the important role this region played in ancient times in the development and spread of bronze metallurgy north of the Alps. Trade links that led from the Baltic States across the Ore Mountains and through the Adriatic and the Aegean Sea made today's UNESCO cultural heritage region a centre of metallurgical innovation in ancient times. It is therefore no wonder that the father of historiography, Herodotus, suspected that this area was the supposed supplier of tin in ancient times.
The ABORA team has been researching many other topics in ancient studies for more than three decades. In addition to the construction of the pyramids and the use of iron as a construction metal, the curator also works on additional specialist areas such as cartography, astroarchaeology or the long-distance trade in ancient American crops.
All of these exciting and not yet fully explained areas of knowledge will have a platform here in the future. Not all interpretations are fully accepted by specialist science. But that is exactly what science is about. It does not seek the absolute truth, but rather always asks more profound questions. The riddles of ancient civilizations challenge us to finally solve them, because: “Those who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it again and again!”
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