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History Matters interpret heritage sites to visitors and provides the resources to enhance and complement historical monuments and heritage events...

Open from:

2009

Member of EXARC:

Yes

La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell (CAT)

The Iberian Citadel of Calafell is a centre of experimental archaeology, an archaeological open-air museum where visitors can see what life was like in the Iron Age 2,500 years ago. It is the first archaeological site in the Iberian Peninsula to have been reconstructed by...

Open from:

1994

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Archeopark Všestary (CZ)

Association for experimental archaeology, project Osada Všestary, connected to the University of Hradec Králové. First higher education centre for experimental archaeology. With much attention for their Neolithic project Monoxylon...

Open from:

1996

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Legio IIII Scythica (BG)

We are a Roman group on the territory of the Scythia Minor (modern Dobruja in Bulgaria) presenting the life of the 1st century AD. We were founded in 2010 in Dobrich (Bulgaria) as a Roman historical re-enactment association.

Open from:

2013

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Hringariki, Veien Kulturminnepark (NO)

Hringariki, Veien Kulturminnepark contains one of Eastern Norway’s largest burial grounds from the Early Iron Age, a reconstructed longhouse and a modern museum. Excavations uncovered traces of four longhouses dated to the Early Iron Age...

Open from:

2002

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Bronzezeithof Uelsen (DE)

Since 2005, a Bronze Age Farm under (re-)construction as a place for educational and experimental archaeology. The project started as an initiative of the community of Uelsen, which financed roughly half of the amount required (ca. 90.000 Euros) for the building of the central house...

Open from:

2005

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Fotevikens Museum (SE)

25 km south of Malmö, Sweden, you will find the Archaeological Open-Air Museum of Foteviken. Inside a city wall open toward the sea, the world’s only attempt to recreate an entire Viking Age town shows a number of streets with 23 houses and homesteads...

Open from:

1993

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Arbeitsgruppe für Experimentelle Archäologie in der Schweiz (AEAS) (CH)

National Swiss organisation for experimental archaeology.
AEAS is an association with about 100 members in Switzerland and abroad, which are actively or passively support experimental archaeology and promote it...

Open from:

1993

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Kierikkikeskus/Kierikki Stone Age Centre (FI)

The archaeological exhibition at the Kierikki Stone Age Centre displays objects from the Stone Age. In addition, activity programs in the reconstructed Stone Age Village offer a unique opportunity to experience life as it was lived thousands of years ago...

Open from:

2001

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Peat Moors Centre - Somerset Heritage Centre (EN)

The suggestion for the Centre originated from John Coles. The first roundhouses were built by Somerset County Council staff to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the Lake Village. They closed in 2009 but might reopen...

Open from:

1992 to 2009

Member of EXARC:

Yes

Mixed Matters

Book Review: The Minoan Double Axe: An Experimental Study of Production and Use by Maria Lowe Fri

British Archaeological Reports has once again provided the world with an excellent publication on experimental archaeology. Maria Lowe Fri’s book is a revised version of her Ph.D. thesis at Stockholm University (2007). As the title indicates, it focuses on the Minoan double axe...

Mixed Matters

Conference: EXARC General Meeting 2010

The EXARC 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...

Mixed Matters

Conference: Report on the 1st Annual RE-ARC Conference

Mark Butler organized the First Annual RE-ARC Conference, which was held on October 16-17, 2010 at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia, North Carolina.
The conference was a great success. Dr. Ann Tippet, Schiele Museum Director, and Steve Watts, Director of Southeast Native American Studies (SENAS), welcomed an international group of forty-five attendees...

Mixed Matters

Book Review: The Boyne Currach: From Beneath the Shadows of Newgrange By Claidhbh Ó Gibne

Claidhbh Ó Gibne has devoted himself to building traditional currachs and researching their history. His new volume, The Boyne Currach: From beneath the shadows of Newgrange, puts the currach in the context of the history of...

Experimental Archaeology

Ancient wood, woodworking and wooden houses

It has been almost 20 years, but it is still relevant
The 1980s was the beginning of a boom in the construction of archaeologically inspired buildings inside and outside archaeological open-air museums.
*** This article introduces a record on the management and use of prehistoric woodland gained from the research of the Somerset Levels...

Experimental Archaeology

Conference: It has been almost 20 years, but it is still relevant

The session was initiated by professor H.T. Waterbolk from Groningen, Netherlands and professor O. Olsen from Copenhagen, Denmark. This workshop took place in Århus, Denmark with 31 specialists from 13 countries attending. The 1980s was the beginning of a boom in the construction of archaeologically inspired buildings inside and outside archaeological open air centres...

Mixed Matters

Obituary: Kazimierz Bielenin

On the 19th of November 2011, Prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Bielenin died in Kraków after a long and exhausting illness. He was a great scientist and scholar but also a very modest man with a great personality...

Experimental Archaeology

Historical Techniques: Cold Gilding

1999 Wilhelminaoord Workshop
***An historal technique of goldplating, described in 18th century literature, was reproduced. This cold-plating technique uses salts of gold, produced by dissolving gold in aqua regia. these salts are then rubbed onto a silver surfaces.

Archaeological Open-Air Museum

Mock-up Presentation of the Gate Tower to the Hill Fort at Liptovská Mara

The author (Dr Oto Makýš from Department of Building Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia) discusses the importance of including maintenance costs while planning an experimental construction based on the example of Liptovská Mara...

Mixed Matters

Book Review: Sailing into the Past: Learning from Replica Ships by Jenny Bennett (ed)

There must be hundreds of wooden ship replicas across the world, not only the ‘Viking ships’ in Scandinavia, but – as the book Sailing into the past shows, there are many medieval and more recent ones...

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