Archeon

We spent the whole day at a living history museum about 40 minutes north of here about the Netherlands during prehistoric times, Roman times and medieval times.

We started in the ice age with a ride in a dug out canoe.

An Ice Age Canoe

Then we had a hunting and gathering lesson.  First we gathered leaves and shells.  Then we did some creeping and running over to the spear throwing area.

William Hefts his Spear

Then our guide painted our clan symbol on our arms with mud.  We were the “oobie-doo clan”.

Clanmates with their Weapons

Further on in history a woman showed us how to make twine out of a dried out stalk and how to grind flour with rocks.  We also saw a man making arrow heads with a rock.  Even further along, in the Bronze Age, we got to help move a boulder.  It was very funny because the rope kept slipping off the boulder and we’d all go staggering backward.  But finally we got enough people to pull and the rope to stay on and we moved that boulder right across the clearing.

Heave ho!