Stone Age to Iron Age

Workshop

Stone Age to Iron Age / Prehistory

Pupils will examine life from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age  investigating every day life in early Britain; including clothing technology, food preparation, real stone tool use, scale models of dwellings and their contents as well as getting hands on with objects. 

Life in the Bronze Age

Pupils will meet Blae from the Bronze Age taking part a range of everyday skills, investigating scale models of dwellings and their contents getting hands on with objects. 

Iron Age/Celts

Meet Catia, a wise woman from the Iron Age in her hut on the edge of the village.  Pupils take part in helping her as she prepares for winter, by preparing food, trying on clothing, training and preparing medicine. Depending on the length of the session and if your grounds are suitable, we can venture out to forage for plants to be used for medicine.

For multiple form entry schools we give your pupils a full day experience with a choice a of resourced in-class activities to delve deeper into the life of the ancient British peoples and how archaeologists work to understand them.

Online

All online sessions are run by our Maya archaeologist. Your school will be the only participants on the call to allow time for your pupils questions. Sessions last 30-60 minutes.

Life in the Stone Age ((30- or 60-minute sessions)

This session is tailored to a specific period in prehistory, with a costumed character (one per call) from the chosen period to give an overview of their life before and question and answer session using replica objects. The focus of the character is on daily life including what they eat, tools that they use, clothing and daily tasks. On request the focus can specifically look at food from the period that you choose and include examples. E.g. soft cheese, fruit, pottage, breads. Two weeks’ notice, is required if you wish links to your local area can be included.

Immersive story (30- or 60-minute sessions)

Choose a story from a particular period that highlights significant aspects of life as part of your visit. Please see the most common stories below however I do have others or can cater to specific requests with time for preparation/writing. Most of the stories that offered are original – e.g. if you want a focus on jobs in a specific period, or animals around these are easily slotted into the period you are interested in.

Mesolithic: The great wave (original story based around the finds at Star Car and a nomadic lifestyle)

Neolithic: Stranger! (original story based around the Vale of Pewsey, the Amesbury Archer and the introduction of Bronze).

Bronze Age: Trapped (original story based around Great Orme copper mine).

Iron Age: Pwyll and Rhiannon (a retelling of a myth from the Mabinogion, Iron Age mythology, with a focus on Uffington Horse and Castle).

Art and Entertainment Bronze Age and Beyond

Meet Blae from the Bronze Age and learn about the art of her time and earlier, including how pigments are made, bone is decorated and how people made music. 

Craft from the Past

A visitor from the past can teach you how to craft an item from your time period, this can be linked with other sessions to build an amazing scheme for your pupils. Crafts can include textiles, metals or clay. Resource lists will be provided after booking. 

Introduction: Stone Age to Iron Age (60 minute)

Join archaeologist Vanessa to examine objects from each of the 5 periods of the Stone Age to Iron Age discovering how life changes through tools, food and locations. 

Otzi and the people of the Neolithic

Learn how archaeologists build an understanding of the distant past by studying the objects people left behind - links will be drawn between this exceptionally preserved find and finds of a similar period in the United Kingdom.

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