Are We Nearly here Yet? Notes for Wed May 7th

Chap 1 – Space – What’s in space? Book notes – Space

Hello everyone.

We didn’t say a complete goodbye to our forebears last week. On Wednesday we must marvel at our ancestor Otzi, 5,300 years old and perfectly preserved in all his finery.

Then the march of civilization begins…

…just after you show off your ear-waggling. Go on, give it a try. You can find the ear-waggling muscles just behind your ears, when you yawn, or even pretend to yawn.

Here are links to some of the crafts our predecessors invented, then passed down to, for instance, my grandparents

A sweet film from primitive times (1950) (3.40m) about the ‘dying’ art of bodging… though there are thousands of bodgers today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWEsVduU9oU

Early tools and modern bodger, showing the whole process close-up (10mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUv3OwY5Etg

You can do a course on bodging at Amberley Museum:

https://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/learn/heritage-craft-courses/polelathe-taster-course/#:~:text=Learn%20to%20use%20a%20Polelathe,for%20further%20details%20&%20to%20book.

bow and arrow (3 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqGNE3tQs0Y.

Flint knapping in 1 min

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CbrqAiZFtnM

‘Eccentric Flints’ were art objects found in Mayan tombs from 1,500 years ago (picture attached)