What are Cultural Routes and how to create them (Porin Šćukanec Rezniček

Table of contents

1 Executive Summary (Martin Fera)...................................................................................................4 2 What are Cultural Routes and how to create them (Porin Šćukanec Rezniček, Marta Rakvin, Jacqueline Balen)................................................................................................................6 2.1 How to create a cultural route? ...............................................................................................6 3 Danube´s Archaeological eLandscapes (Martin Fera).......................................................9 3.1 Project facts.......................................................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Activity A.T3.2 – Archaeological routes of the Danube region..............................11 3.2.1 Data model and data collection.........................................................................................12 3.2.2 Physical implementation and web-frontend.......................................................14 3.2.3 Data analysis ............................................................................................................................. 16 4 Results – Online presentation https://dael-routes.eu (Martin Fera)......................... 19 4.1 Stone Age Route: Hunters and Gatherers...................................................................... 20 4.2 Neolithic Route: First Farmers and Early Herders.......................................................21 4.3 Copper Age Route: The Dawn of Metallurgy.................................................................22 4.4 Bronze Age Route: Miners and Traders.............................................................................23 4.5 Barbarians Route: The Fall of Rome and the Rise of Realms .............................24 5 Recommendations (Martin Fera)...................................................................................................25

1 Executive Summary (Martin Fera)

The Interreg project Danube´s Archaeological eLandscapes (07-2020 to 12-2022) aimed to support one of the largest networks of major institutions with archaeological collections and knowledge in the Danube Region. The project´ s major goal was to make archaeological landscapes of the Danube region more visible and thereby more attractive for its integration into sustainable cultural tourism, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Following the Iron Age Danube Route - which became a certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe in May 2021 - the international partners in the project Danube´s Archaeological eLandscapes identified archaeological heritage elements illustrative of common European memory, history and heritage and presented them as proposals for 5 thematic cultural routes in a web database. The proposals cover:

• Palaeolithic (Stone Age route) • Neolithic (Neolithic route) • Copper Age (Copper Age Route) • Bronze Age (Bronze Age route) • Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Period (Barbarians route) The results are presented on the webpage https://www.dael-routes.eu/ where more information can be accessed. The database allows to browse through the sites and landscapes representing a thematic selection of archaeological highlights, telling stories of important periods of the European past.

Within this project the first two steps of a five-step process of the creation of new cultural routes have been carried out: the creation of a theme and the identification of heritage elements by the experts of the partner countries involved. Following steps were started by organising workshops and presenting the proposals to stakeholders, however, clearly further measures are recommended to continue the development process and bring the proposals to strong networks who can carry out the next steps towards attractive new archaeological COE Cultural Routes.

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