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Call for Papers TAG2020: Sensing Textiles and Cogitating Craft Technology

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  • United Kingdom

Call for Papers, deadline 21 September

TAG2020, Leicester, UK, Session 29: Sensing Textiles and Cogitating Craft Technology

The 2020 annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group will take place in Leicester from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th December

Session Abstract:

Kernave in 3D

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  • Lithuania

KernavÄ— was a medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

These 3D videos were commissioned by the KernavÄ— State Cultural Reserve and are used in the KernavÄ— Archaeological Site Museum.

Museu de Prehistòria de València at the European Archaeology Days

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  • Spain

The Museu de Prehistòria preserves much of the material legacy of the towns that occupied the Valencian territory. The recovery of this important heritage has been possible thanks to the excavations that the Prehistoric Research Service (SIP) has carried out for more than 80 years.

The Vertical Olive Crushing Mill as a Machine and its Energy Balance - A Preliminary Approach

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Antonis G. Katsarakis 1 ✉
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The vertical crushing mill turns the olives into pulp by combining the rotational and rolling motion of a heavy upright stone wheel that moves with continuous contact along a circular horizontal trajectory on a stationary base which forms the system's frame of reference. It was devised during the Hellenistic period and served as one of the most important and impressive means of production in the pre-industrial olive mills of Crete and the Mediterranean in general, until more advanced mill types gradually started replacing it from the mid-19th century onwards.