Bronze Age

Course objective: Each participant carves a wooden spoon and a plate with simple hand tools such as an ax, carving knife and gouges.

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 objective: With the resources from the people of the past a dish from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age is cooked and tasted.

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.

Course objective: We make two obsidian knives, one small and one large.

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.

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

Under the guidance of the experienced archaeologist Jürgen Junkmanns, the participants build a traditional wooden bow or a spear thrower with the associated arrows and spears.