experimental archaeology
Conference Review: 媚姬直播 General Meeting 2010
The 媚姬直播 General Meeting was held in Cardiff, Wales, UK from the 5-7 of March 2010. Participants visited St. Fagans, an open-air museum, on Saturday the 6th. This review focuses on the papers and the discussion that took place on Sunday the 7th, entitled Open Air and Experimental Archaeology in the UK: recent work and ongoing projects...
Book Review: Experimentelle Arch盲ologie. Eine Gratwanderung zwischen Wissenschaft und Kommerz by Dirk Vorlauf
***The name Dirk Vorlauf is closely connected to the history of experimental archaeology in Germany. From the late1980s, the Vorlauf has conducted several experiments testing archaeological hypotheses, and he is critically involved in methodology and theory...
Book Review: Experimentelle Arch盲ologie in Europa, Bilanz 2010
***Twenty years of Bilanz of experimental archaeology 鈥 under this phrase the ninth volume in this series covers a series of articles which deal in different ways with questions in this range...
Book Review: Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology by Jeffrey R. Ferguson (ed)
Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology is a recently published guide to planning and conducting archaeological experiments. Edited by Jeffrey R. Ferguson, a research assistant professor at the archaeometry laboratory at the University of Colorado, the book aims to guide researchers through methodology and experiment design...
Book Review: Experimental Archaeology by John Coles
It may appear odd or redundant to reprint a book that was published in 1979. The subject will have moved on, more will have been discovered, new techniques will have been developed. But this is partly the point: Experimental Archaeology by John Coles is a foundation text for the subject as a whole...
Conference Overview 2010/2011
A wide range of conferences on experimental archaeology and open air museums took place in 2010 and 2011, both in Europe and the Americas. This brief summary is based on the conference reviews from our contributors which can all be accessed freely on 媚姬直播 JOURNAL website from early 2012 on...
Conference Review: The 1st Annual Seminar of Experimental Archaeology in Norway
Recent years have shown an upsurge of activities related to experimental archaeology in Norway. The time was therefore ripe to arrange a meeting (7 May 2011) and there was talk of forming a formal network for experimental archaeology in Norway. The previous meeting of the sort was in 2005, and the idea of a seminar was well received...
Grundtvig, Life Long Learning in Archaeological Open-Air Museums
In November 2009, the idea for launching a network on adult education in 媚姬直播 was picked up. The first step was a preparation meeting in Oerlinghausen, Germany where we met with about 20 媚姬直播 members from almost all corners of Europe. By mid 2010, 15 organisations, including 媚姬直播 itself joined in two so called Grundtvig Learning Partnerships, funded by the European Union...
Obituary: Janis Apals (17 September 1930 - 21 February 2011)
With J膩nis Apals, who died at the age of 80 after a short illness, the international world of experimental archaeology looses a valued friend and colleague. 媚姬直播 remembers J膩nis Apals as an energetic archaeologist, standing strong for...