Viking Age
Scandinavian Iron Age and Early Medieval Ceramic Moulds - Lost Wax or Not or Both?
***Since the 1940s we have had a discussion in Scandinavia concerning ancient mould-making methods. The question of different methods in the production of ceramic moulds has taken a large part in these discussions; by lost wax or by direct matrix-methods...
IRM - International Reenactment Market
Country
- Germany
The international reenactment fair IRM is the first cross-epoch trade fair for living history, reenactment, archaeotechnology and experimental archeology in Germany.
Book Review: Förestallningar om det Förflutna by Bodil Petersson. Imaginations of the Past, Archaeology and Reconstruction
Archaeological Open-Air Museums in the Netherlands, a Bit of History
International conference on use-wear analysis
Country
- Portugal
Taking into account the unquestionable success of the last scientific meetings on the development of use-wear studies in archaeology over the last two decades, we are pleased to announce that we are organizing an International conference on use-wear analysis...
Obituary: Ole Crumlin-Pedersen (24 February 1935 - 14 October 2011)
On 14 October 2011, Ole Crumlin-Pedersen passed away after a long period of illness, aged 76. Ole Crumlin-Pedersen, born 24 February 1935 in Hellerup, Denmark dedicated his life to maritime cultural heritage, maritime archaeology and old ships...
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...
Conference Review: Reconstruction “in Situ”, International Archaeological Meeting of Calafell, 2011
March 2011, ļֱ 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 Öguf-Symposium 2010
Prehistory and Early History (ÖGUF) 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 Häupl – and the general director of the Museum for Natural History Vienna, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Köberl. Theme was experimental archaeology: theory, practice, science, education...
Conference Review: EXAR in Berlin, October 8-10, 2010
This year’s ļֱ Conference took place at the Freie Universität in Berlin and was themed Experimental Archaeology and University...