Ann Clarke » Hunter/ gatherer http://annrocks.co.uk Lithic Specialist Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:12:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=333 Experimental Archaeology http://annrocks.co.uk/2009/10/28/experimental-archaeology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=experimental-archaeology http://annrocks.co.uk/2009/10/28/experimental-archaeology/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:25:31 +0000 Ann http://annrocks.co.uk/?p=134  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.

Flakes of quartzite were used to skin and butcher this reindeer carcass. Avasjo, Sweden 1982 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. The reindeer hide is stretched out on a frame between trees and scraped with a bone tool. Avasjo, Sweden 1982 ]]> http://annrocks.co.uk/2009/10/28/experimental-archaeology/feed/ 0