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ArkeoTopia offers a workshop for children to play the role of an archaeologist by discovering how pottery used to be crafted back in the Neolithic Age:
In the time of the Neolithic: discovering prehistoric pottery
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In the time of the Neolithic
discovering prehistoric pottery
Introduction to the Workshop
How is pottery made nowadays? How did archaeologists find out about the crafting methods used for pottery by the Bell-Beaker (French Neolithic) civilization ? What does the Bell-Beaker period mean in the context of French History? What is the Bronze Age?
These are some of the questions the children will explore through easy and fun games where they will have to make use of their little grey cells to discover how archaeologists conduct research.
Depending on the time allocated to this activity, they will try their hand at crafting pottery the Neolithic way.
Skills Implemented during this workshop
Knowledge
- Learn about the Bell-Breaker civilization
- Discover the various ceramics crafting methods
- Learn about a tool used by archaeologists: the “chaîne opératoire”
Practical Skills (methods)
- Learn to be observant
- Recreate the ways to craft and use pottery
- Present your results in front of a group
Social skills (behavior)
- Listen to instructions, observe, respect other people’s hypotheses
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