Experimental archaeologists Theresa Emmerich Kamper and Sarah Day hope their 219km odyssey will reveal more about ancient peoples' lives along the River Thames.
Nine days into their quest to paddle the full length of the River Thames, Theresa Emmerich Kamper and Sarah Day watched as a slate grey stormfront swallowed the blue sky. The onrush of rain was moving so fast there was no time to paddle ashore and unload their gear. Their buckskin dresses weren't waterproof. And if their reindeer fur bedding got soaked, it would never dry.
but she'd only used it on short jaunts. If they took animal skin boats on a multi-day journey, they reasoned, they could learn more about how Paleolithic peoples might have traded along rivers and even migrated to islands around Scotland and the Mediterranean.The idea was born: they would paddle 255km of the Thames with handcrafted canoes, equipment and food that mimicked – as closely as they could practically and legally manage it – those made by Stone Age peoples.
Due to their busy teaching schedules, they hadn't tested them out yet. When they put the boats in the river, they began to leak. Emmerich Kamper wasn't surprised. She'd originally sewed her skins with pig intestine, which doesn't endure as well as sinew, and she'd had to make hasty repairs. But both women remained unflappable; they'd just bail water until the skins were wet enough to restitch. It's all part of experimental archaeology.
The next day, the headwind continued to buffet them, so they towed Emmerich Kamper's boat. They enjoyed chatting and singing in the same boat so much, they kept it up the rest of the 11-day journey. On the single day a tailwind blew, they fashioned a sail from a stick and a leather tarp. Emmerich Kamper held the sail high, looking like a human mast in her buckskin bikini top and full back tattoo.
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