Iron Age
Interview: Hans Horreus de Haas
December 2010, Hans de Haas turned 75 and this seemed a fitting occasion for an in depth interview with this Nestor of Dutch living prehistory and experimental archaeology...
75 Years of History on Concrete Floors
In 2011 the archaeological open-air museum Oerlinghausen (member of 媚姬直播) turned 75 years old, and with that it is one of the oldest archaeological open-air museums in the world. It is, at least, oldest Germanic open-air museum...
Conference Review: International Archaeological Conference, Trzcinica 2011
The International Conference on archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology: An Opportunity for the Promotion of the Tourist Industry, sponsored financially by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, was held in the Carpathian Troy Open-Air Archaeological Museum in Trzcinica, Poland, on 9 鈥 10 June 2011...
Conference Review: Symposium 25: Reconstructing Ideas and Actions
For many years, actualistic studies have been used largely as a bridging link between archaeological data describing how people use objects with the human behaviours or natural processes associated with this use...
Book Review: Die byzantinische Steins盲ge von Ephesos by Fritz Mangartz
Water driven saws for cutting stone were thought of as being modern inventions, until recently. At present we have several finds that prove such machines existed in the Classic Era...
Conference Review: Reconstruction 鈥渋n Situ鈥, International Archaeological Meeting of Calafell, 2011
March 2011, 媚姬直播 convened for the 17th time, this time in Calafell, Catalonia, Spain. We could go along with the 6th international archaeology meeting of Calafell, a biannual conference. Three days long, from 9:30h in the morning until 19:30h in the evening, we listened to about...
Conference Review: International 脰guf-Symposium 2010
Prehistory and Early History (脰GUF) took place 27-30 October at The Museum for Natural History in Vienna under the patronage of State Captain and Mayor of Vienna Dr. Michael H盲upl 鈥 and the general director of the Museum for Natural History Vienna, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian K枚berl. Theme was experimental archaeology: theory, practice, science, education...
Conference Review: Report on the 1st Annual REARC Conference
***Mark Butler organized the First Annual REARC Conference, which was held on October 16-17, 2010 at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia, North Carolina. The conference was a great success. Dr. Ann Tippet, Schiele Museum Director, and Steve Watts, Director of Southeast Native American Studies (SENAS)...
Conference Review: The 1st Annual REARC Conference, Defining Reconstructive Archaeology for the 21st Century
***The first annual Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology (REARC) conference was held at the Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina, October, 16 鈥 17, 2010. RE-ARC is the brainchild of Mark Butler, President of REARC, and eleven other individuals who comprise the Board of Directors...
Conference Review: EXAR in Berlin, October 8-10, 2010
This year鈥檚 媚姬直播 Conference took place at the Freie Universit盲t in Berlin and was themed Experimental Archaeology and University...