TheSettlement–ThisCouldHaveBeen.

Two students were brushing at a skeleton. It had to be a woman, grown, and with no visible bone damage at first glance.

She had a copper band on her head, similar to a tiara. Her neck and wrists were adorned with copper jewelry.

She was probably an influential woman, wealthy and prosperous for her time.

Fragments of pottery and bowls were beside her. Shells and pheasant feathers were not missing. A few meters away, two other archaeologists were uncovering a skeleton, male...

Falkensee, before it was Falkensee, in the first century.

The sun peered over the trees, and Hea walked out of the house with her brother Run. Not all the swamp spirits had gone to sleep yet, but the night watch was glad to see another sun rise.

The two of them walked to the river, or was it still a stream? Never mind, there were shells and small crabs anyway.

They wanted to fill Hea's belt pouch with them before the daily hustle began.

Hea was 12 years old and already had a share of responsibility for the family's provision. She wore a fine, soft leather dress, held up by a flax belt around her waist. For the shells, she carried a net pouch. Her hair was tied with a leather band. She wore leather jewelry around her wrists and neck. Her 10-year-old brother wore knee-length leather pants, held with narrow leather straps. A necklace with a stone Celtic Trinity symbol indicated from which settlement he came. They both had blonde hair.

As they entered the water, a small, startled trout tried to escape. But it h