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Prehistoric Beads, Modern Challenges

Reproducing prehistoric jewellery is not something I get asked to do particularly often… but let’s start at the beginning.

One of my oldest friends from university is an archaeologist. She frequently works with the Haus der Museen in Olten, and at some point the question came up of how best to reproduce a Stone Age artefact so that visitors could actually handle it and play with it. She remembered that somewhere in her circle of friends was somebody who wielded a 3D printer. A few emails later, I had a commission to reproduce a 6,000-year-old necklace made of jet.