Making Fire in Old Times Course
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Austria
Making Fire like in Old Times
Course objective: Each participant creates his own functional fire set.
Iron Age
Forging a Lance or Spear Tip, creating Glass Beads or Handmade Paper
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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
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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
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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
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Austria
Forging a Knife
Course objective: Production of a knife blade made of steel.
AvAnt Ge - Association pour la valorisation de l'Antiquité à Genève (CH)
AvAnt Ge is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote and share interest and knowledge of Antiquity with the public, through the organization of la Nuit Antique.
It is composed of scholars, professors, students and mediation professionals. By developing and fostering effective synergies between the various actors mentioned, as well as with several institutions in the region, it relies on the vitality of research in this field.
Considering the great enthusiasm of the public for Antiquity in all its forms (history, daily life, archeology, literature…), Avant Ge proposes to federate the motivation and skills of its members around this festival now well anchored in the cultural landscape of Greater Geneva.
Reaching Out to the Communities We are Here to Serve: Developments at the Scottish Crannog Centre
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The Scottish Crannog Centre is a small archaeological open-air museum on Loch Tay in Perthshire. It originally operated as a visitor attraction, giving people a glimpse into life in the Early Iron Age through demonstrations of ancient skills and guided tours of a reconstructed crannog – loch dwelling – based on discoveries and excavations made by the Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology...
Channa Cohen Stuart
Member of EXARC since
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the Netherlands
Crafts & Skills
Municipal Archaeologist of Wijk bij Duurstede/ Dorestad. I have been involved in experimenting with food in the past 25 years.
Bow and Spear Thrower Building Course
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Switzerland
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.
Prehistoric Wellness
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Switzerland
Welcome to the wellness center “Zum Steinzeitkamm”. Here you can experience body and beauty care using methods that are thousands of years old. Forget chia seeds and Goji berries: we show you which superfoods have already been growing with us since the Stone Age and what ingredients our Ancestors used for beauty treatments - natural and soothing. Let yourself be pampered!
