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Scraping Seal Skins with Mineral Additives

Author(s)
Lasse van den Dikkenberg 1 鉁,
Diederik Pomstra 1,
Annelou van Gijn 1
Publication Date
Neolithic scrapers from the Vlaardingen Culture (3400-2500 BC) display a variety of hide-working traces, amongst which traces interpreted as being the result of contact with dry hide. It has been suggested that, potentially, some of these implements were used to scrape fatty hides with mineral additives. Therefore, a series of experiments...

The Butser Ancient Farm Horton Neolithic Building 鈥 Its Construction and Significance to the Interpretation of Buildings of Early Neolithic Britain and Ireland

Author(s)
Trevor Creighton 1
Publication Date
In 2019 a substantial building, based on archaeological evidence of early British Neolithic dwelllings, was constructed by site staff, volunteers, and staff of Wessex Archaeology at the Experimental Archaeology site, Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire, England. The archaeological feature on which our building was based was excavated in 2012 by Wessex Archaeology as part of a pre-extraction programme...

Workshop: Woven Skin-on-Frame Boat

Date

Country

  • United Kingdom

Before the invention of metal tools, hominids had utilised stone, bone and antler tools for millenia to undertake relatively complex carpentry tasks. Here in Somerset we are fortunate to have some of the best preserved Neolithic wooden archaeology in Britain, surviving in our peat bogs out on the Levels.

AEOM 2024 Annual Conference

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Country

  • Hungary

Representations of and reflections on traumas in open air museums

Our annual conference in 2024: Representations of and reflections on traumas in open-air museums

Venue: Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre

Pre-conference tour: trauma-related indoor and outdoor exhibitions in Budapest and its surroundings on 18th August

New Year in the Stone Age Park

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Country

  • Germany

We don't know whether and how the people of the Stone Age in the Albersdorf area and elsewhere in Schleswig-Holstein celebrated the turn of the year. New Year's Day is a good date to explore the topics of the calendar and the turn of the year while taking walks through the Stone Age park and the Stone Age village.

Workshop Flint Knapping

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Organised by
笔谤茅丑颈蝉迟辞尘耻蝉别耻尘

Country

  • Belgium

Target group for this workshop:

1) Archaeology students 鈥 Bachelor 3, Master and cand. PhD.
2) Postdocs, professionals and amateurs.

Strategy of Presenting Prehistoric Sites Like an Open-air Stand. Why and How and from a Sustainable Development Perspective

Author(s)
Mona Abo Azan 1
Publication Date
Archaeological excavations have revealed important sites from the prehistoric sites, with the cultural achievements of the early lithic tools of hunters-gatherers in the Palaeolithic, to the emergence of the farmer-village societies in the Neolithic, reaching on to urbanisation and the complex societies of the Chalcolithic...

Can Experimental Archaeology Confirm Ethnographic Evidence? The Case of Aboriginal Boomerangs Used as Retouchers

Author(s)
Eva Francesca Martellotta 1, 2
Publication Date
In this article, an experimental programme is used to examine how boomerangs may be used to retouch stone tools. The programme's findings confirm ethnographic data pertaining to the employment of hardwood boomerangs in retouching activities and investigate their technological similarities to Palaeolithic bone retouchers...

Book Review: Experimentelle Arch盲ologie in Europa, Jahrbuch 2022

Author(s)
Stefanie Ulrich 1
Publication Date
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***The periodical is published by Gunter Sch枚bel and the European Association for the Advancement of Archaeology by Experiment e. V. (Europ盲ische Vereinigung zur F枚rderung der Experimentellen Arch盲ologie) in collaboration with the Pfahlbaummuseum Unterhuldingen...

Midwinter's Magical Quest

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Country

  • United Kingdom

MEET THE HOLLY KING AND DEER QUEEN IN THIS ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE!

Embark upon 鈥淢idwinter鈥檚 Magical Quest鈥 right in the heart of Hampshire and immerse yourself in the enchanting world of ancient traditions brought to life! Join us on a heart-warming journey as we celebrate winter traditions from a time long before the commercial holidays.