by wildanacrow | Published on Feb 29, 2020 | Last updated on Mar 18, 2021 | Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Stone Age
This was our home, this entrance crossed so many times by the members of our tribe, like a portal in between two worlds. During this last week at our Neolithic living experience, we dressed in skins, cooked with a clay pot in the fire, ate reindeer meat and berries,...
by wildanacrow | Published on Feb 20, 2020 | Last updated on Mar 18, 2021 | Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Stone Age
Neolithic Living is happening! After 2 months of intense preparation, here I go to finally meet my tribe at Kierikki Stone Age Centre and live a full week at the Neolithic village there ✨ Time was very limited, so there was a lot more I wish I had done but...
by wildanacrow | Published on Feb 11, 2020 | Last updated on Jan 2, 2023 | Bioregional Animism
Biophilia is a term coined by Edward O. Wilson, defined as our need as humans to connect with other forms of life. The Biophilia Hypothesis suggests that humans have an innate connection with the natural world, a connection that might be a biologically-based need,...
by wildanacrow | Published on Feb 4, 2020 | Last updated on Mar 18, 2021 | Bioregional Animism, Portuguese Folklore
In Portugal, there’s an ancient tradition that still lives today. A tradition of shapeshifters, of devils and masks, of rites and magic. This is the tradition of the Entrudo and of the Caretos. Every year in February or early March, the Entrudo is celebrated in...
by wildanacrow | Published on Jan 4, 2020 | Last updated on Jan 3, 2023 | Ancestral Skills, Hide Tanning
What is Natural Hide Tanning? Softening animal skins for clothing is one of the oldest human skills on Earth which is thousands of years old. Hide tanning is the act of turning a raw animal hide into a preserved skin that can work as a textile (the fibres woven by the...
My name is Ana Filipa Piedade and I am a portuguese hide tanner and ancestral skills student, practioner and teacher. I find a lot of joy in sharing about traditional living skills with others and try to make them more accessible to everyone.