Neolithic
Mining at Pozarrate: Applying Experimental Approaches to Understand the Neolithic Extraction of Flint in the Sierra de Araico (Treviño, Spain)
***The aim of this paper is to introduce the scientific works performed in the Sierra de Araico Neolithic Mining Complex, mainly located in the Treviño enclave of Spain. Archaeological works were focused on the Pozarrate quarry, dated to the Neolithic period (6000-5600 BP). This site is unique since it has been used recently to...
Carving a Wooden Spoon
Country
- Austria
Course objective: Each participant carves a wooden spoon and a plate with simple hand tools such as an ax, carving knife and gouges.
ICMAH 2020
Country
- Colombia
In the last few years, ICOM and its members have reflected upon the following difficult issues. In 2017 the subject for the international museum day was Contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums, and this year it is going to be Museums for equality: Diversity and Inclusion.
Prehistoric Cooking and Frying Course
Country
- Austria
Prehistoric Cooking and Frying
Course objective: With the resources from the people of the past a dish from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age is cooked and tasted.
The Experimental Reconstruction of an Early Neolithic Underground Oven of Portonovo (Italy)
***This contribution presents the experimental reconstruction of an underground oven replicated according to the archaeological evidence unearthed from the Early Neolithic site of Portonovo-Fosso Fontanaccia (Ancona-Italy). A domed structure, measuring 190x180 cm diameter at the base and 50 cm in height, was dug in 15 hours...
Making a Rawhide Bag
Country
- Austria
Course objective: Each participant goes home with a rawhide bag.
Course content: scraping the skin when wet, shaping a container, cutting rawhide strings, attaching a handle, drying the container.
Making Fire in Old Times Course
Country
- Austria
Making Fire like in Old Times
Course objective: Each participant creates his own functional fire set.
Forging a Lance or Spear Tip, creating Glass Beads or Handmade Paper
Country
- Austria
Forging a Lance or Spear Tip
Course objective: forging an iron lance or spearhead.
Course content: After an introduction to forging technology and the history of thrust and throwing weapons, each participant forges his own lance or spearhead historical model.
Carving Bone and Antler Course
Country
- Austria
Bone and Antler Carving
Course objective: Each participant acquires knowledge and practical skills in bone and antler carving and, under professional guidance, produces an object of choice according to archaeological models using the technical possibilities of the past.