Tanning, Tools, and Talking

This episode of The EXARC Show features #FinallyFriday guests Theresa Emmerich Kamper and Ian Dennis for “Tanning, Tools, and Talking”. Our guests this month bring a wealth of skills to the workshop, and have spent years teaching those skills. Host Matilda Siebrecht talks our guests through the value that hands-on expert knowledge brings to experimental archaeology. Tune in for further chat about the joy of accidental discoveries, challenges to the ideas of "women's work" and "men's work", and the lifelong benefits of letting kids explore the world with their hands.

Ian started experimental work in 2006, researching the antler combs, looking at construction methods and techniques and the material waste found from comb production. Most recently he has been looking into the making and use of antler bracelets.

Theresa is an avid practitioner of traditional living skills and primitive technology of all kinds and has been tanning skins using traditional technologies for over 25 years.