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Firestarting & More: Primitive Skills Workshop

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Course Overview

Stone Age technology explained and placed in your hands. Matchless fires, finely flaked flint, spears, slings and combustible mushrooms: it’s the stuff many kids (and grown ups) dream of! This primitive skills workshop invites you to learn the basic skills of yesteryear, exploring the foundational skills required to nap flint, bow-drill firestarting and working with flint and steel. Would you like to learn how to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together? No problem! Students will have the opportunity to 'play for a day' and explore a pre-bow and arrow technology with an atlatl - a simple spear-throwing device that uses mechanical leverage to greatly increase the force of a thrown spear. Adults, kids ages 8+, and those somewhere in between are all welcome to join the fun!

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