Living in the Iron Age | Caroline Nicolay & Tom Timbrell | PODCAST #33

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It was an absolute delight talking with Caroline & Tom about their insights into what it was like living in the Iron Age. This is archaeology from the other end of the barrel; actually living and working with the available foods, materials, pigments and technology gives an insight into prehistoric life that simply looking at archaeological remains cannot. The depth of archaeological knowledge these two have, coupled with their experience of hands-on dealing with the realities of day-to-day Iron Age life, illuminates not only a period just before the Romans arrived, but probably way before that, the Bronze Age and maybe even the Neolithic.

00:00 Introduction.
01:58 Welcome and background.
07:30 What Caroline and Tom do.
09:40 Conservation and management of waste in the Iron Age.
12:40 How do you learn what they did - through practise?
15:05 Shared labour/expertise
21:42 The making of Tom's first sword!
28:20 Economies of dyeing and weaving.
36:40 Conservation & repair of weapons/tools.
41:20 Avoiding waste.
43:28 Day-to-day living skills from archaeological data.
48:25 Meat: hunted vs domestic sources.
58:00 Is looking at the Iron Age also a lens on the Bronze Age and the Neolithic?
01:03:08 Living in Iron Age houses.
01:10:10 Valedations!

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