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Iron Age

Hand-fasting Vow Renewal

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Country

  • United Kingdom

Celebrate your love by renewing your vows above the sacred waters of Loch Tay in a unique Lochside dwelling with an ancient hand-fasting ceremony. Then honour the Beltane festival of fertility and renewal by passing through the purifying fires of life, finishing with a celebration on the Crannog beach and signed certification of the ceremony.

ASOR session on Experimental Archaeology

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Organised by
ASOR (USA)

Country

  • USA

Anyone interested in coming to San Diego, CA in November to talk about their work? There will be an Experimental and Experiential Archaeology session at this year's ASOR Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov. 20-23, 2019. ASOR is about the Near East and wider Mediterranean world, from the earliest times

Archeofest 2019 Metallurgica

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Country

  • Italy

Archeofest®, the festival of experimental Archaeology conceived and organized by the Cultural Association Paleoes - eXperimentalTech ArcheoDrome, reaches this year its sixth edition in collaboration with Museo delle Civiltà, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia and the Istituto Centrale per la Demoetnoantropologia.

Butser Ancient Farm: An Internship Full of Senses

Author(s)
Àngels Fernández Canals 1 ✉
Publication Date
‘What is experimental archaeology?’ people asked me. ‘But if you work within an experimental place, you won’t be able to put into practise the tools learned in your Masters about cultural heritage and museology’ said some of my classmates. However, for me it was really important to do my internship in a place where the archaeology was paramount; at the same time, I was interested in...

4th Experimental Archaeology Workshop

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Organised by
City Council Taramundi (ES)

Country

  • Spain

Friday 7 December
Throughout the day, preparation of the oven, roasting the iron ore  
(Taramundi Square)

Saturday 8 December
08:00h: Firing the furnace
12:00h: Presentation of the book "La Edad del Hierro" by José M. Salgado (Conference Hall of Taramundi)
13:00h: Guided visit to the reduction furnace by Jodok Lackinger

Celtic Copper Alloy Coin Minting Technology: Experiential Approaches

Author(s)
Lawrence Herzman 1,
Monika Townsend 2 ✉
Publication Date
In this paper, details are presented for three technical approaches that can be employed in the reproduction of Celtic coins from Britain: 1) the use of pellet trays to produce coin blanks of standardised weight; 2) the use of successive iterations of clay moulds to shrink coin design images while retaining clarity; and 3) the use of a low-carbon steel die that was heated to a plastic state and struck with a cast bronze slug to...

Conference Review: 2018 EXAR Tagung in Unteruhldingen (DE)

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
For the annual Tagung (conference), about 120 people convened in the southernmost point of Germany, at Lake Constance, near the borders of Switzerland and Austria. This conference is the perfect networking event for experimental archaeology in the German spoken part of Europe. Out of the 27 lectures, 25 were presented in German. The strength, but also its weakness, of the conference is that anything goes...