Austria
Carnuntum Children’s Festival
For the Children‘s Festival, the rebuilt city quarter of Carnuntum will turn into a fascinating theme park for young Romans. A great number of fun activities promise full immersion into the past...
Book Review: The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making: The Development of Craft Traditions and Clothing in Central Europe by Karina Grömer
Huns Party
There will be horse riding
It is going to be wild
It is going to be Huns-like
The stories about Attila and his horse-warriors are legendary. However, were they really that brutal and greedy as history tells us? The Urgeschichtemuseum MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya, not far from Vienna, shows all their aspects at the Huns Party on 27 and 28 August...
The Archaeological Open-Air Site of the Museum of Prehistory MAMUZ and Its Cultural Touristic Development
Problems and Suggested Solutions in the Replication and Operation of a Glass Furnace based on Roman Remains: an Experiment in Glass Production
Part of the reorganisation of the archaeological open-air area at Asparn are plans for a remaking of the Iron Age workshop area. The construction of an Iron Age smithy and a glass production furnace are also being planned. As is widely known ‘glass can be made out of quartz sand, potash and lime’. But is it as easy as that? It is therefore legitimate to discuss here the experimental efforts involved in its production.
Keltendorf Mitterkirchen (AT)
At Mitterkirchen, in the local area called Lehen you will get acquainted with the life back 2700 years ago, in the Iron Age period referred to as the Hallstatt Era. Excavations of about 80 graves took place here in the 1980s leading to the construction of an archaeological open-air museum with over 20 houses and workshops.
At Mitterkirchen, in the local area called Lehen you will get acquainted with the life back 2700 years ago, in the Iron Age period referred to as the Hallstatt Era. Excavations of about 80 graves took place here in the 1980s leading to the construction of an archaeological open-air museum with over 20 houses and workshops...
Conference Review: Archaeological Reconstructions and Tourism, Mistelbach (AT)
Construction of a Neolithic Longhouse Model in the Museum of Prehistory Urgeschichtemuseum (MAMUZ)
Burgbau Friesach (AT)
The construction site of a castle, near the town of Friesach, is entirely devoted to the most authentic re-creation of the medieval times.
South of the town of Friesach, a castle is being built with medieval technology.