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

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
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See the reconstructed artefacts!
Part of a Prehistoric Artist's painting kit.
Learning from the past
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.
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Natural cordage
Testing a cord made from plant fibres.

Bronze Age Mining Technologies

Mining tools

Fire setting

Concentrating processes

Centre for Ancient Technologies, Cranbourne
Increasing the temperature in a clay furnace with skin bag bellows.
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.
Making fire the hard way!

Prehistoric Man & Woodland

Wooden tools

Wooden Spears

Food & medicines from the woodland

Making bows

Making arrows

Making fire

Animal traps

Shelter
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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