Austria

Making Fire like in Old Times

Course objective: Each participant creates his own functional fire set.

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.

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 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 objective: Production of a knife blade made of steel.

Course objective: Construction of a portable oven based on historical models.

Course objective: production of various Danubian arrowhead types from the period from the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age.

Course objective: Acquiring the necessary practical and theoretical basic knowledge to produce arrows in conformity with the rules for the archery category "historical bow" with wooden shaft and natural springs.

Course objective: Each participant goes home with a piece of leather they have tanned themselves.

Course content: scraping the rawhide in the frame, inserting it into a brain mass, pulling the rawhide dry to the leather, smoking the leather, tips for further processing