Dates: Now - September 29, 2012
Times: Drop in 124 p.m.
Category: Family
Location: Powers-Walker House in Glacial Park, 6201 Harts Road, Ringwood, IL 60072
Phone: 815-459-5779 Visit Our Website

Try your hand at throwing an atalatl and pretend you are on a prehistoric big-game hunt during McHenry County Conservation District's Archeological Awareness event. Drop in anytime between 12-4 p.m., archaeologists will be on hand to describe how these prehistoric technologies are discovered and interpreted and to share a time-line of the prehistoric past. Examples of artifacts will be on display including some of those found at the Powers-Walker house. Flintknappers, stone grinders, cordage makers and other prehistoric skills will be demonstrated. Additionally, a mounted cavalryman will explain the archaeology of Little Big Horn.

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