Cave Art Workshop
Wed 04 Aug
|Creswell Crags Museum
Using stone tools and local limestone as a canvas, try your hand at copying some of the artwork styles found at the Crags.
Time & Location
04 Aug 2021, 10:00 – 16:00 BST
Creswell Crags Museum, Crags Rd, Creswell, Worksop S80 3LH, UK
About
Creswell Crags is famous for its Ice Age artwork, which is some of the most northerly in Europe!
Using stone tools and local limestone as a ‘canvas’, you can try your hand at copying some of the artwork styles found at the Crags.
The steady, calming process of carving out lines with stone tools will give you a sense of the moment when some of the Palaeolithic artwork was made over 12,000 years ago.
Dr James Dilley is an archaeologist and craftsman who specialises in prehistoric technologies with over 18 years of experience. James has worked with museums and heritage centres around the UK such as The British Museum and Stonehenge and alongside media companies such as the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Smithsonian Channel and National Geographic.
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