Bronze Age

Join “Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture,” in-person and online at the Australian National University on Friday 18 November, 2022.

Last opening in 2022

Winter Count, (started 1995), is part of a family of gatherings that strive to reconnect people with old ways of making fire, tanning hides, forming metal, weaving baskets, hunting, gathering and much more. We teach ancestral skills that were essential to the survival and well being of all cultures, no matter what continent your ancestors came from.

The scenic tour "A Zug journey through time: 17,000 years in one hour" presents Zug's prehistory(s) in an entertaining way. The audience encounters the legendary pile dwelling researcher Ferdinand Keller, a museum designer with an exuberant imagination, and Kerila, a time traveler from the Bronze Age.

Grandparents' day "House by the lake - craft like a pile dweller!" - Registration required

On the 29th of October, another edition of this Prehistoric Recreation will take place in Rio Seco, at Rua Eduardo Bairrada (Ajuda), organized by CAL - Lisbon Archeology Centre, in partnership with ARQA - Associação de Arqueologia da Amadora, with the Ajuda Parish Council and the Monsanto Forest Park, with the extraordinary Rio Seco Geomonument as a backdrop.

For a week, everything revolves around the topic of jewellery and handicraft techniques from the Stone Age. During excavations, archaeologists repeatedly find pieces of jewellery made from a wide variety of materials, from simple limestone beads to magnificent amber necklaces.

Research in the Montale terramara highlights an exceptional spinning activity, probably also aimed at the trade of yarns.
New data on sheep and goat farming and on tools and techniques for spinning.