This day-school has been designed for the Ness Botanic Gardens, University of Liverpool.
From the Lower Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age stone tools are the character witnesses we call upon to structure our story of the past. The first half of this day-school will be lecture based introducing the relative chronology of British prehistory, and examining some of the stone tools we use to recognise these periods within the archaeological record. The second half of the course is practical, where we each get to make a Bronze Age arrowhead. Making an artefact allows an engagement with the tools, materials and processes used in the past. This provides a richer understanding of the people in prehistory and their life-ways. Or as someone else once described it “budget time travel”. |