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Ancient Arts has designed a series of activities for heritage sites, museums, groups, individuals or schools.
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Art in Prehistory

Prehistoric designs

Making & using natural pigments

Prehistoric painting techniques

Clay & wax modeling

Stone engraving & pecking

Prehistoric artist's tool kit

Artist's paint kit
Part of a Prehistoric Artist's painting kit.
Gwynedd Archaeological Trust Friends get serious

Stone Age Technologies

Stone knapping (flint & granite)

Stone axe making

Tool hafting & Cordage

Fire making

Neolithic pottery

Wood fired kilns

Hafting a stone hammer.
See the reconstructed artefacts!
Natural cordage
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Learning from the past
Testing a cord made from plant fibres.

Bronze Age Mining Technologies

Mining tools

Fire setting

Concentrating processes

Centre for Ancient Technologies, Cranbourne
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Increasing the temperature in a clay furnace with skin bag bellows.
Be inspired!
The moment of truth

Bronze Age Technologies

Copper smelting

Clay furnaces

Artefact designs/sculpture

Clay mould making

Stone mould making

Bronze casting

Testing a bronze spearhead made for the BBC's Meet The Ancestors.
Glowing metal!
The molten metal emerging from the furnace to be poured into the mould.

Prehistoric Man & Woodland

Wooden tools

Wooden Spears

Food & medicines from the woodland

Making bows

Making arrows

Making fire

Animal traps

Shelter
Making fire the hard way!
Making fire using a fire bow.

Prehistoric Man & the Sea

Fishing spears

Nets/Fish traps

Ebb food

Harpoons

Skin boats
Making a fish trap from withies and ivy.
Harpoons made from bone.

Medieval Crafts

Iron working

Arrow making

Hurdle making

Wattle & daub

Decorative lime plaster work

Bone working
Making iron arrowheads.
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