The life cycle of a handaxe
For my dissertation, I looked into Doggerland and what has been found there. I wanted to create a simple animation displaying a fictional story about how things could be discovered based on true events. The story begins with a fishing boat bobbing on the water, bringing in a net of fish. when the net is opened a fisherman notices some objects got caught up in the net that don’t belong. He picks up one of the objects and inspects it. At this point you go back in time to when it was being made and its possible uses. Finally, the object is lost, and it is reclaimed by the earth and the sea. This takes us back to the beginning of the cycle.
This story is meant to highlight how a very ordinary object for that time has a history, and sitting in a display case, it doesn’t have much of a voice. I wanted to keep the animation simple and demonstrate that you do not need to have a background in animation and use expensive software to create this.
