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Hallo guys!
I was wondering to open this topic in the moderator's section, but since it's something that concern us all as a community, I decided to open it here.
With a friend of mine, we recently started an Association of Experimental Archaeology, with the purpose of teaching kids archaeology in a different and funny way, and to work for universities.
Yesterday a girl from an inland municipality phoned us and offered us a job for the beginning of April: a laboratory on flint knapping for kids and adults.
Since that girl is one of the municipality's politicians, and she graduated in archaeology, she's so enthusiastic about our Association that she will engage us for building an archaeological park in the surrounding of her village, in 2013.
This is a big project, therefore she arranged this smaller event in April to show other politicians how our Association works: we'll knap flint objects and expose our other stuff (iron and bronze weapons, Bronze/Iron Age jewelry, leather stuff, clothes and so on) to the public.
Long story short: one of the main guidelines of our Association is the scientifical research before each experiment. This also includes anthropological researches.
Since slinging is one of our experiments, and I've been given slings from Perù, Tibet and Sweden, I was willing to create an "Anthropological Section" of our Association, by exposing these slings (and pottery, flint blade and glass bead given to me by other forum members) to show how this simple weapon has been in use everywhere.
Of course each sling and "foreign" object will be accompanied by a card with the name of the maker and its place of origin, but I was thinking... what if I advertise the forum a bit?
I may prepare a card with the colors and logo of the site, and a sentence like: "Arte Picena's Anthropological section: made possible by slinging.org".
Should people be interested, I'd explain them what the site is about and how to eventually subscribe.
What do you think of it? Can I use our site's colors and logo? Can I mention the site?
I'm asking because perhaps not all of you agree with that, even if I personally believe it might be a nice way to both advertise the forum and give our Association a bigger reliability.
There's plenty of time to decide, just let me know
Greetings,
Mauro.