Iron Age
Experimental Research on the Setting up and Exploitation of the Human Prehistoric Habitat in the Middle Dniester Region
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.
Keep it in your own Backyard: New Experimental Perspectives on Domestic Iron Age Lithic Industries in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula
***Both knapped and polished lithic industries have traditionally been given great regard within the archaeological studies of northwestern Iberian Peninsula, mostly focusing on their typologies and the materials used. However, this has not been the case with other stone objects, such as rolling stones, that tend to appear in...
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.
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.
Bronze Casting Course
Country
- Austria
Bronze Casting
Course objective: Cast your own bronze object.
Course content: At the workshop, each participant creates his own mold, into which the liquid bronze is poured. However, post-processing is also necessary to turn the blank into a shiny gold piece.
Forging a Knife Course
Country
- Austria
Forging a Knife
Course objective: Production of a knife blade made of steel.