A project in experimental archaeology, Avasjo, Sweden
This involved a week in Lapland partaking of activities appropriate to a hunter/ gatherer lifestyle: setting camp, making and using stone and bone tools, skinning and butchering a reindeer, cooking and preserving meat, preparing hides, making cooking pits, walking in the wildwood.
For a fuller account read:
Wickham-Jones, CR; Clarke PA and Barlow, A 1986 ‘A Project in Experimental Archaeology: Avasjo 1982’, Review of Scottish Culture 2, 97-104.
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- Flakes of quartzite were used to skin and butcher this reindeer carcass. Avasjo, Sweden 1982
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- Meat is wrapped in birch bark and placed in a cooking pit. Hot rocks are rolled from the fire into the pit and then covered with moss. Avasjo, Sweden 1982.
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- The reindeer hide is stretched out on a frame between trees and scraped with a bone tool. Avasjo, Sweden 1982
