About this Event
Test your skill, luck, and resilience at Burpee Museum's Art of Hunting on November 23, 2024
Cost:
- Non-Members: General Admission: Adults, $15, Youth (4 - 12) $13, Children 3 & Under Free
- All Members are FREE! NO TICKETS REQUIRED
- Art of the Earth Class: $2 per person
Examine the anthropology of survival: every skill could mean the difference between life and death. Discover how ancient hunters mastered tools like spears, arrows, and the game-changing atlatl to secure food, clothing, and shelter. Join us for an immersive journey into the ingenuity, resilience, and resourcefulness that shaped human history.
Humans have been surviving and thriving in North America for thousands of years, but they have not always had our modern luxuries. Before there were planes, trains, and automobiles, humanity had learned to hunt, communicate, and live using only the resources of the land around them. On this special event day, you can learn the habits humans used to survive, see the tools of the trade, and even try your hand at hunting giant mammals as we explore life and culture thousands of years in the making.
With interactive special exhibits, demonstrations, and make-and-take activities located throughout the museum, Burpee will have engaging fun for all ages!
1. Atlatls, Spears and throwing weapons
2. Hunting Practices
3. Food Preservation, So you’ve caught an animal, now what?
4. The Neolithic Family, Gender roles in prehistoric communities
5. Guess the Animal Game!, Using skins, tracks and skulls guess the animal
6. Fire! History’s Hearth, History of Fire Usage
7. Taming the Wilds: Domestication, History of Domestication-Food forests, turkeys, dogs
8. Tools, from the most simplistic to the sophisticated
9. Passport/Voting/Prize Booth
And a Special Art of the Earth class- Cave Painting
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 North Main Street, Rockford, United States
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