THE STORY OF THE WORLD AND A SHADUF

 

 I am a member of a history club and we are all reading STORY OF THE WORLD by Susan Wise Bauer. We read a few chapters and present to the group a part of the book.

My first presentation was about the first farmers and how they used the shaduf.

First I made a simple one to see how it worked.  

 Then I made another one from sticks and a leather bucket.

For the presentation I was an archaelogist explaining to a group how the shaduf worked by dipping the bucket into a river and using the stone as a weight, they swung the beam around to water the crops. I think it's a really cool machine.

 

A MUSEUM AND A CELTIBERIAN VILLAGE

In Soria, we went to a museum in Garray where there is a lot of local Celtiberian and Roman history.

In this photo you can see a battering ram they used to knock down fortress doors. 

This is a Roman military camp.

 

These figures are cute. 

 Then we went to Numancia where there is a village of Celtiberian origins. The Celtiberians fought against the Romans for 20 years before the Romans finally took the village. Then they built their own houses on top of the other one.

 This is a circular rainwater cistern for public use.

 These are hand querns used for milling the grain. They made beer from fermented wheat.

 This one is a Roman house. It has a roof of rye sheaves.

 These are looms for weaving cloth.

 These photos are of a Celtiberian house with a Celtic symbol on the door and the kitchen.