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Book: The Sandal
The Sandal is really a generally-applicable book about history, emphasising the point that people have and always will be people, no...
Book: Cavegirl (Bloomsbury Young Readers)
I have no idea why this book is called “Cavegirl” - the protagonist is pictured throughout living in a lovely permanent house in a...
Activity: Stone Age Food
According to most books about the British Stone Age, everybody ate a long list of a few dozen different types of mammal and bird (many...
Activity: Making Flatbread
Grinding domesticated grain into flour was a big new development in the Neolithic, but leavening bread with yeast or baking soda (etc)...
Activity: Stone Age Sculpture
Looking at pictures of Stone Age 3D art - Venus figurines and clay animals, the first 3D figurative art. Then making a copy of one in...
Visit: The Stonehenge Area
July 2020: Day 3 of Prehistory Week. Stonehenge plus another site nearby (Woodhenge or Durrington)
Activity: Pottery
Using a video from English Heritage, made a clay pot in geometric incised design.
Overton Round Barrows
Five Bronze Age round barrows at the start of the Ridgeway path. Now just grassy mounds in a field...
The Sanctuary
Another henge site near Avebury, possibly associated with the remaining stone ring. Sadly the stones from the Sanctuary were removed in...
West Kennett Long Barrow
A massive long barrow that you can go inside to see the chambers. Park in a lay-by and walk up a hill to find it in the middle of a...
Silbury Hill
A big artificial hill the size and date of the Pyramids. Why? Who knows!
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