Metal age villages to promote archaeo-heritage-tourism

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>From Srinivasan Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@g...> wrote:

See the artist's impression of a planned village at the URL cited

below. It will be nice if similar villages are located on the banks of

River Sarasvati and River Sarasvati for the copper-age sites and for

the iron-age sites of 2nd millennium BCE (e.g. Kalibangan, Ahar-Banas

culture, Malhar, Lohar diva, Raja Nal ka Tila), capping the heritage

tour with a visit to the Delhi iron pillar, Gulf of Khambat

marine-archaeological complex with the submerged palaeo-channels of

Rivers Narmada, Tapati (NIOT project sites) and the forged canon at

Gulbarga fort (apart from a holy-bath in the Sarasvati Sarovar which

is now ready at Adi Badri, Yamunanagar and offer ma_tr. tarpan.am as

Balarama did at Pr.thu_daka)..

 

Kalyanaraman

 

BBC news, 13 Sept. 2004

 

Plans for Iron Age tourist camp

 

Planners have been given an artist's impression of the village.

An archaeologist plans to offer tourists the chance to experience life

as an Iron Age villager.

Jasper Blake aims to transform farmland in the Forest of Dean into a

working Iron Age settlement.

 

Paying visitors will be able to live at the village for a week,

wearing authentic costumes, foraging for food or learning to weave.

 

Mr Blake also hopes to attract day trippers and schools. His idea is

being presented to planners on Tuesday.

 

If he receives permission from the Forest of Dean District Council,

the settlement, named Cinderbury, could be up and running by March

2005.

 

He will run the village with co-director Sheila Taylor.

 

 

The co-directors hope to inspire interest in archaeology

 

Up to 20 people could stay at the village at one time, where they

would cook their own food, sleep in the Celtic-style round homes and

do traditional crafts such as pottery.

 

They would also have to survive on a pre-Roman diet that rules out

chocolate, coffee and potatoes.

 

"They will live, sleep, eat and take part in activities that would

have been typical of Iron Age settlements," said Mr Blake.

 

"Nobody knows what it was like in the Iron Age but these are the

activities that they might have had.

 

"I hope it will inspire others in terms of the archaeology," he said.

 

Mr Blake's chosen site already has traces of scowes - open workings

unique to the Forest of Dean that were used to source iron.

 

He said the historic and archaeological links to the region made it an

ideal location for a replica Iron Age village

 

Mr Blake is aiming to attract history lovers and adventurous

holidaymakers who can afford the £750 a week cost. Day visitors will

be charged £10.

 

"I think it will attract the kind of people who have done trekking

across India and now want something different," he said.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/3649052.stm

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