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; [...]
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Ard points Bronze Age Butchering Coarse stone tools Early Historic Faceted cobbles Flaked Lithics Flaked stone bars Flint Ground stone tools Hammerstones Hammer stones Handled 'clubs' Hunter/ gatherer Iron Age Landscape archaeology Lithic research lithic specialist Mesolithic Neolithic Orkney Pounder/grinder Rotary querns Saddle quern Shetland Skaill Knives St Kilda Stone balls Stone cleavers Stone flakes Stone tool analysis Stone tools Stone weights Strike-a-lights Tools West Heslerton Worked pumice