Technologies autochtones

Stories, songs, ceremonies and places as memory codes.

Il semblerait que j'aie trouvé un nouveau passe-temps pour terminer mes journées. Il suffit de fouiller dans les retailles de matériaux pour bricoler un couteau de poche. J'ai toujours aimé les miniatures alors voilà une bonne activité de recyclage préhistorique.

Nowadays, maps are conventional navigation tools designed for everyone to use, but indigenous people have a culture specific way of mapping the land by connecting to it in a meaningful way.

Un petite activité de recyclage avec des restes de matériaux pour faire un couteau de poche préhistorique. Rien ne se perd avec un peu de créativité.

À la recherche d'un cadeau original pour les fêtes? Nous avons une sélection de colliers inspirés de l'archéologie en boutique. Chacun est unique et fabriqué à la main comme cette pointe de flèche taillée dans une bouteille antique selon la méthode préhistorique.

Différents types de grattoirs lithiques selon la morphologie.

Today, I decided to take a break from orders and do something new. After being inspired by some recent publications and a timely conversation with a customer, I decided to make some chert scrapers. More attention is usually given to projectile points has they are good chronological and regional markers but scrapers are much more common in the archaeological record and even though they are most often made with discards and difficult to associate to any specific period or cultu...re, they are good functional markers. They are in fact important tools as they were used for everything from preparing hides to working bone and wood. Since I already have a projectile point typology, I figured I would make a scraper typology. It’s not exhaustive but it does illustrate the main types of scrapers found in Northeastern archaeological sites. This will be joining our teaching collection for future activities. For those who have not yet seen or projectile point typology, it’s available in our catalog: http://files.abotec.ca/photos/typologie_lithique.jpg See more

Since the beginning of the pandemic, I've been limiting my visits to schools except for special occasions. Today I was happy to be back in an elementary classroom to deliver our new workshop on Northwest Coast material culture. https://www.abotec.ca/schools.html In the mean time, Marie has been doing her weekly workout shaping her new bow that started as a half log just last week. Hopefully, we can have our bow making classes available to the public again in the spring. https://www.abotec.ca/classes.html

Reproductions de gouges à dent de castor pour les activités éducatives d'un centre d'interprétation. Pour voir le fonctionnement de cet instrument: https://www.facebook.com/501520833211008/videos/1006883546008065

An interesting story about a 1,000 years old bison scapula.

Did food processing make us human? According to Bill Schindler's research in experimental archaeology, it's not about what we eat but how we eat it and the connection of people around food.

Free access articles on the archaeology of food in prehistoric North America.