Where Are We in History? Part 2 – The Age of Metal

Where Are We in History? Part 2 – The Age of Metal

We’ve landed in a small village on a hill. A woman grinds wheat on a stone, a boy scrapes a hide with a flint knife – and behind the houses green smoke rises, with a smell we don’t recognize.

In this class we learn to read a period by what the people in it made things from. We start with the Chalcolithic period, when copper appears but most tools are still flint, and open a hoard of 442 cult objects that someone hid in a cave above Nahal Mishmar and never came back for. We continue to the Bronze Age and discover that to hold a sword you need a whole fleet: the tin that turns copper into bronze came here from England, by sea. We’ll see how an entire era collapses when the roads are cut, and why iron – the metal that lies beneath every field – is the one that wins. And we end in Jerusalem, at the end of the Iron Age.

Throughout the class we travel through time: we land in a scene, look around, and ask what the tools are made of, who made them, and above all – what’s missing here.

With archaeology, Tanakh, photos from the field and Google Earth flights. Classes are for ages 6-14, and the level is geared towards the audience

This class is part of The Museum Guy’s Homeschool History Course — weekly bilingual Zoom classes on Jewish history, archaeology and world history, plus monthly in-person museum meetups around Israel, taught by Nachliel Selavan.

Full schedule and topics: themuseumguy.co.il/homeschool
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