Discover the history of our human ancestors and learn the skills that helped them survive.
Primitive Skills: STONE AGE FISHING
Two-Day Adult Workshop
Saturday, October 12: 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday, October 13: 9 AM – 4 PM
What tools and techniques would you use to catch fish if you had lived in the Stone Age? Create aboriginal-style fishing tackle during this two-day workshop led by Primitive Skills expert, James Parker. Craft a variety of sinkers, floats, and hooks made from bone and thorns, then visit the pond on The Schiele’s Nature Trail for a primitive catch-and-release fishing experience. All supplies provided.
About the Instructor:
James Parker has had a passion for primitive living skills and bowmaking for nearly all his life. James has over 40 years of experience with bowmaking. He also enjoys flintknapping and applying other primitive technologies, sharing skills with others, and keeping those skills and traditions from being lost.
$100 Museum Members / $125 General Public
Register by Friday, October 4
Directions to the workshop location – Outdoor Education Center at the Stone Age Heritage site:
Follow detour signs to the main lot and follow the signs on the Nature Trail to hike to the Stone Age Heritage site.
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Park near the site. Instead of pulling into the main lot, take Garrison to Carlton Drive and turn into the neighborhood (you will see a big green sign for Bradley Chiropractor at the turn). Follow Carlton Drive until you arrive at the stop sign. Take a right onto Fairfield Drive. After about ¼ mile, you will see 2 white posts on the right-hand side of the street on either side of a gravel driveway. Take this gravel driveway through the chain-link gates. You can park near the fence or follow the drive to the right, past the picnic shelter to the back of the Outdoor Education Center. Drive carefully, as this gravel drive is part of our Nature Trail and there may be visitors walking.
