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Archaeology is the discipline of things, exploring how people make their own worlds through material culture. This can include houses, personal dress and jewellery, tools and equipment, cooking utensils, amongst many other things. The stories of all things includes the raw materials used to make them, the skills, knowledge, techniques and practices involved in the making, and the use, wear, repair and discard of them into the soil. This module introduces you to how people made things in the past. You will work together as a class in a practical experimental archaeology week, outdoors in the open air, using genuine raw materials (plants, clay, stone, flint, wood, textiles, etc) to make various replicas of archaeological objects. You will make things, and thereby gain genuine personal insights into the material worlds of the past. The module will have 2 introductory lectures at very start of trimester 2. This practical course is then taught over one week at UCD School of Archaeology's Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC) between Tues 18th and Fri 21st of March 2025 (during the Reading/Fieldwork period). CEAMC is UCD School of Archaeology's experimental archaeological facility on the UCD Campus (in Roebuck district). Do dress for practical outdoors activities in Irish weather. For further information on CEAMC, see weblinks below. UCD CEAMC website is here https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/ UCD CEAMC on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl6r12tTQOtJr-ApBYyGgkw UCD CEAMC on Twitter https://twitter.com/EArchaeol UCD CEAMC on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/UCDExperimentalArchaeology/