{"id":10676,"date":"2019-06-27T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10676"},"modified":"2019-06-27T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:55:40","slug":"teach-the-kids-to-build-a-henge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10676","title":{"rendered":"Teach the Kids to Build a Henge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet the Neolithic Family.<\/p><\/div>\n

The paleontological\/archaeological team at Twilight Beasts <\/em>reviews The First Foresters: Explore the Neolithic in Scotland\u2019s native woodlands,<\/em> by Kim Biddulph and Matt Ritchie.<\/a><\/p>\n

This little book contains a potent emphasis on environmental awareness, incorporated with attention to structures and material culture, such as timber circles and cursus monuments of the Neolithic, as well as polished stone axe heads, before challenging the participant to enter into a Neolithic mind-set \u2013 and asks is that even possible in the modern world? That\u2019s surprisingly deep question that most adult experimental archaeologists will sigh, shrug and smile wryly at. Not a bad idea to make kids realise that we cannot ever step in the same river twice! My personal favourite activity is the construction of a wooden circle in class. I remain slightly relieved that my own daughter is not an age where this would have caught the imagination too far, and I\u2019d have woken up surrounded by a ritual mound of books and shoes\u2026 though you never do know! It\u2019s an activity I could see being incredibly useful , with a few more analytical tweaks, to the average First Year undergraduate archaeology student.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Best of all, it is a free download (PDF 4.7 MB)<\/a><\/p>\n

Add some experiential learning involving stone tools<\/a>, and you are all set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The paleontological\/archaeological team at Twilight Beasts reviews The First Foresters: Explore the Neolithic in Scotland\u2019s native woodlands, by Kim Biddulph and Matt Ritchie. This little book contains a potent emphasis on environmental awareness, incorporated with attention to structures and material culture, such as timber circles and cursus monuments of the Neolithic, as well as polished […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[237,20,17],"class_list":["post-10676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agriculture","tag-archaeology","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2Mc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":369,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=369","url_meta":{"origin":10676,"position":0},"title":"The Crane Dancers of \u00c7atalh\u00f6yuk\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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