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Neolithic

Interview: "Right Time, Right Place" with Jürgen Weiner

Author(s)
Wulf Hein 1 ✉
Publication Date
Jürgen Weiner - you can’t get away with not knowing this name if you are involved in Experimental Archaeology, even more if it involves flint. Weiner has published numerous works and he is known as a walking encyclopaedia. Along with Marquardt Lund, I met Jürgen and his charming wife in their house near Cologne. Our interview took place on a pleasant June afternoon in the garden...

The Construction of a Replica Section of the Middle Subneolithic Purkajasuo Lath Screen Fish Weir at Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Finland

Author(s)
Peter Groom 1 ✉,
Evon Kirby 1,
James Findlay 1
Publication Date
In July 2018 the Mesolithic Resource Group attended the Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Pahkalantie, Finland. The visit provided us with the opportunity to practice experimental archaeology in a ‘Stone Age’ landscape at Kierikki. One project was the reconstruction of a section of the Neolithic wooden fish weir from the site of Purkajasuo, which is on display in the museum...

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...

Seminar on Taphonomy

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Organised by
Université de Liège (BE)

Country

  • Belgium

Taphonomy of use-wear traces and residues on stone tools: issues and perspectives

9:00h
Taphonomy and stone tool residues: understanding processes of deposition, removal and decay (in English), by By Dries Cnuts, TraceoLab / Prehistory Liège Université

Open Day - Experimental Archaeology

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Organised by
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia (IT)

Country

  • Italy

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2018, the Asociation. Paleoes - eXperimentalTech ArcheoDrome o organises a day entirely dedicated to experimental archeology, aimed at both adults and children, to explain experimental archaeology, with a view to inclusion and participation.

Experimental Archaeology Course Caspe

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Organised by
Centro De Estudios Comarcales Del Bajo Aragón-Caspe
Institución «Fernando El Católico»

Country

  • Spain

The 15th Experimental Archeology Course is celebrated this year 2019 between September 13 and 17. The place is the Student Residence "Florencio Repollés", located in C / Sástago s / n, in the Bajoaragonesa town of Caspe (Zaragoza, Spain).

Treewright Weekend

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Country

  • United Kingdom

Treewright is a modern translation of the Old English treowwyrhta. The treewright's job was to manage and convert wood into timber, through splitting, hewing and dressing the raw logs using wooden wedges and a variety of specialist axes.