Mixed Matters
Conference Review: Reconstructive & Experimental Archaeology Conference REARC 2013
***This article is republished from the Bulletin of Primitive Technology #46. The 4th Annual Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference was recently held in Gastonia, NC at the Schiele Museum of Natural History. The conference theme was Education and Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology...
Event Review: 1st Bloomery Seminar, Starachowice 2013
Experiments performed in Starachowice, like many others ŚSDP1 activities,are a continuation of research on ancient metallurgy in the Holy Cross Mountains which was initiated ne
Conference Review: 8th Experimental Archaeology Conference, Oxford 2014
***The conference unofficially began in the Royal Blenheim pub at 6 pm on Thursday evening. Conference staff and attendees filtered in throughout the evening eventually filling the back room. The pub had excellent food and a good variety of local ales. Those who managed to brave the flooding introduced themselves and got to know...
Book Review: The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making: from Origin to Modern Experimentation by Pierre M. Desrosiers (editor)
There are few issues in lithic studies that have captured the imagination and attention of researchers as much as laminar (blade) technologies (see Bar-Yosef & Kuhn 2009). This has resulted in a rich and detailed body of academic work partly reflected in Pierre M. Desrosiers’ (Ed.) The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making: From Origin to Modern Experimentation...
Obituary: in Memory of Otto Harsema (11 September 1939 - 8 September 2013)
Conference Review: A Trip to the Birthplace of Experimental Archaeology
Book Review: The Value of an Archaeological Open-Air Museum is in its Use by Roeland Paardekooper
120 Years of Strategies and Experiences in Educational and Handicraft Skills
***One aim of the five year EU-funded Culture Project OpenArch is to encourage cooperation between archaeological open-air museums in Europe and ethnological open-air museums who have a long history of presenting and handicraft to the public in practical ways...