{"id":6017,"date":"2014-06-03T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2014-06-03T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T06:26:10","slug":"insights-from-building-in-the-neo-neolithic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/06\/03\/insights-from-building-in-the-neo-neolithic\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights from building in the neo-Neolithic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have noted before (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/02\/06\/building-the-neo-neolithic\/\">this<\/a>), English Heritage has been building some new neolithic houses at its Stonehenge visitor centre. \u00a0This has involved volunteers from a range of backgrounds, possessing (and learning) an equally diverse range of skills. \u00a0Clearly, this was an environmental education of a direct and practical kind \u2013 but not just that. \u00a0Nick Jones, of World Heritage Trails, has been one of the volunteers, both at Stonghenge, and in the trial run that took place last year at Old Sarum. \u00a0You can read Nick's reflections on his involvement <a href=\"http:\/\/neolithichouses.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/30\/reflections-on-learning-through-the-neolithic-houses-by-volunteer-builder-nick-jones\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked the metaphor c\/o a young Audrey Grundy who said, having just completed a 1000 piece English Heritage jigsaw of Stonehenge, \u201cPutting the pieces of the stones together was much easier than the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have noted before (see this), English Heritage has been building some new neolithic houses at its Stonehenge visitor centre. \u00a0This has involved volunteers from a range of backgrounds, possessing (and learning) an equally diverse range of skills. \u00a0Clearly,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}