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Conference Review: Paleofestival, La Spezia, 2018

Author(s)
Katarzyna Badowska 1,2 鉁,
Wojciech Rutkowski 1,2,
M. Bartczak 1,2
Publication Date
The Paleofestival took place on 26-27th of May 2018 in the Castle of San Giorgio in La Spezia (Italy), which today serves as a Museum of Archaeology. Reconstructors from different parts of the world introduced visitors to issues related to everyday life in ancient times. There were attractions for adults and children. There were reenactors mainly from Italy, but also from other countries...

Prehistoric & Medieval Culture Fair

Date
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Organised by
Cesty archeologie (CZ)

Country

  • Czech Republic

Food, that magic word. Today it's so easy to get it, just visit the nearest supermarket or restaurant. But how did people eat earlier? What did all the living in the prehistoric and the Middle Ages mean? Tradespoeple from far distant counties go back thousands of years to the Krumpenowe Krupka Village - this time to hold the Pasta past. Come with them to taste their history!

Moving Monoliths: Easter Island and Environmental Collapse

Author(s)
Maureen Folk 1
Publication Date
The Rapa Nui civilization once thrived on Easter Island, and produced unique statues which became a parable for collapse around the world (Hunt and Lipo, 2011). Several experiments have been conducted to better understand this collapse, specifically surrounding the movement of the islands鈥 largest inhabitants, the moai 鈥 the large monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people...

Experimental Archaeology Course

Date
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Organised by
Museum of Cannock Chase (UK)

Country

  • United Kingdom

Join us for a fun, hands-on, informative course about the skills required in experimental archaeology.  The Mesolithic Resource Group will take you through a full programme including shelter, cordage, tools, foraging and much much more.

This ten week course costs 拢150.  Booking is essential, and are taken for the whole course. 拢45.00 deposit to secure your place. 

Conference Review: SAA General Session, Experimental Archaeology 2018

Author(s)
Yvette A. Marks 1
Publication Date
The Society for American Archaeology is, perhaps with the exception of the World Archaeology Congress, the largest meeting of archaeologists in the world. The 2018 annual meeting was held in Washington DC and was attended by approximately 5000 archaeologists. Delegates were primarily from the States, but there was also a good international showing with attendees coming from around the world...

Conference Session: Archaeological Landscapes in the Museum

Date
Organised by
Nordwestdeutscher Verband fuer Altertumsforschung e.V. (DE)
Arch盲ologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein (ALSH), Schleswig (DE)

Country

  • Germany

The 83rd conference of the Northwest German Association for Archaeological Research will take place in Heide, Holstein (DE). One of their sessions is particularly interesting: the meeting of the workgroup 鈥瀉rchaeological museums鈥 of the German Museum Association. This conference will be in German. 

Conference Review: African Conference on Experimental Archaeology 2018 from a Volunteer鈥檚 Point of View

Author(s)
Joshua Kumbani 1
Publication Date
The first Experimental Archaeology conference on African soil (ACE 2018) brought people from near and afar. Without knowing it I found myself among the Local Organising Committee of the conference. Each day was a learning curve as I sat in on those meetings and was also assigned to do certain tasks as we were preparing for the conference...

Session: Archaeological Replication in Contemporary Research

Date
Organised by
The New Zealand Archaeological Association (NZAA)
Australian Archaeological Association (AAA)

Country

  • New Zealand

The New Zealand Archaeological Association (NZAA) and the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) annual conference will be held at Auckland University from 28 November to 1 December 2018. This particular session is on Thursday November 29. The session is in room 3, 8:30h - 13:00h and contains 12 papers.