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South West Bushcraft & Outdoor Show

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2021 sees the first South West Bushcraft & Outdoor Show!

Promoting traditional crafts, primitive skills and bushcraft. Journey back in time by visiting our Anglo Saxon woodland farmstead, where you can witness and try your hand at an array of different traditional skills and crafts to understand how our ancestor's lived off the land.

Fresco Mixtures with Dried Lime Plaster: Cameron’s Experiments Revisited

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Αntonis Vlavogilakis 1
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Introduction

During the Bronze Age, the craftspeople of the eastern Mediterranean practiced a form of reuse or recycling: fragments of mortar were used as aggregates in lime mixtures intended for walls or floors (Shaw, 1973, p.222; Brysbaert, 2003, pp.168-173, pp.175-176; Jones, 2005, p.220; Brysbaert, 2008, p.118). Such a mixture was found in a house in the Akrotiri settlement of Santorini, in a part of the wall that was intended to be painted (Jones, 2005, p.220).

Archaeological Experiment on Reconstruction of the “Compound” Bow of the Sintashta Bronze Age Culture from the Stepnoe Cemetery

Author(s)
Ivan Semyan 1 ✉,
Spyros Bakas 2
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#EAC12 World Tour 2021
***This article presents data from an international experimental study on the reconstruction of the “compound” bow of Sintashta culture of bronze age South Ural, Russia. The project is carried out by a collective of researchers from Greece and Russia as part of the grant program of ļֱ - “Twinning program”...

Pyrgos Mavroraki Smelting and Melting Experiments in a Metallurgical Workshop of the Second Millennium BC

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Maria Rosaria Belgiorno 1 ✉,
Livio Pontieri 1
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Interpreting the cultural influences of Cyprus in antiquity has posed an issue, depending on one’s point of view or the different conclusions reached. Until the 1970s, in large part due to the extensive excavations along the northern coast of Cyprus, it seemed reasonable to recognise a plethora of Aegean traits in the island culture. Every element of the Cypriot Bronze Age was analysed and interpreted in...