Weapons

I am a professional archaeologist working in the private sector in Ireland. I have been presenting Viking Age living history and material culture since late 1990. More recently I have been presenting Hiberno-Norse material culture with museum-quality replica artifacts from 10th-century Ireland.

I became interested in preindustrial technology through archery, boomerangs, throwing sticks, and spear throwers in the 1980s.

Demonstrating and teaching bronze casting at Butser Ancient farm for 19 years.
My speciality is developing and testing Bronze Age weapons, working with leading experts and students to develop the knowledge at Butser.

I am an adjunct research fellow at the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. My research focuses on the use of organic tools (i.e., osseous and wooden tools) in Aboriginal Australia and Palaeolithic Europe. 

Since 2005 I am active in living history fighting as a gladiator and founded in 2006 my own group, the Hamburg-based LVDVS NEMESIS.

More than 25 years a Roman re-enactor with an interest in all aspects of human life as it was. But as a cheese maker by profession particularly interested in the dairy products of ancient times, both local and Roman.

I am a flint-knapper. I have been flint-knapping for many years. I do replicative experiments in stone tool manufacture and stone tool use. My primary job is as an archaeologist for the state of California. I teach anthropology at the local community college.

I am a medieval historian, researching, publishing and teaching on aspects of medieval military culture.

I have twenty years' experience as a guide in museums and heritage sites, including the Roman Baths in Bath and Goodrich Castle in Herefordshire.

I have been studying and training in a range of Asian and European traditional martial arts for over 20 years. I run a number of medieval martial combat clubs (looking at combat as a martial art and not a sport) and also interested in earlier period combat of the Greeks and Romans.

Since the early '90s of the last century I've been a re-enactor of both the Viking period, and of WW2. In my Viking persona I show kids and their parents what kit a warrior would have, such as a mail shirt, helmet, shield and sword and what the cost of such equipement would be.