Activities
At the time of the emergence of the Celtic "princely sites" north of the Alps, in some cases ca. 100 years earlier, the Greek cities of Sybaris, Zhurrii were founded. Still the influence of this Greek (and other Mediterranean) developments on the situation is under discussion.
At several times and in different regions the impact of social, economic and environmental changes always caused new ways of living. The investigation of agriculture made people settle down and the emergence of new social systems sometimes caused the development of new settlement structures. All these developments have parallels throughout Europe having many phenomena that can be investigated at the same time in different places.
NETConnect aims at such a "pan-European" vision of culture through the research, interpretation and reconstruction of three different cultural scenarios and their mutual interconnections:
1) Magna Graecia in South of Italy
2) "Glauberg" in Hesse, Germany
3) Lusatian culture, Biskupin, fortified settlement Early Iron Age, Poland
Among the objectives is the broadening of knowledge about the development of the past, about a common European heritage and to enhance the possibilities to get access to this knowledge on-site and off-site. Sharing the information about sites (connected with a common specification), spread all over Europe, links the past with the present and can give an idea of a future Europe without frontiers, frontiers in thinking and frontiers as borders and differentiation between countries.