Cyprus

Vounous International Terracotta Symposium

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Çatalköy Municipality
Country
Cyprus

This year, the 4th Vounous International Terracotta Symposium takes place in Vounous - Çatalköy-Girne, Cyprus. Topic is the reproduction of Early-Middle and Bronze age Vounous ceramics with the primitive creating and kilning techniques in the ateliers formed in a Cyprus Bronze Age replica Village. 

Experimental Copper Smelting Course

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Organised by
University of Geneva (CH)
Country
Cyprus

The University of Geneva is pleased to announce its new summer course on Experimental copper smelting, which will take place in Ayia Varvara (District of Nicosia, Cyprus) from July 20 to July 26, 2019. The aim is to provide students with hands-on experience in smelting copper the way it was done in Iron Age Cyprus, from building a furnace to the actual firing and smelting process.

Cyprus Ancient Arts

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Cyprus

Pottery workshop "Cyprus Ancient Arts" in Phoini. Under the auspices and sponsorship of the Ministry of Tourism. In this workshop we will learn the basic techniques of recreation of ancient pottery inspired from the Bronze Age and the Middle Ages.

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Phoini, Foini, Cyprus

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Ancient Cypriot Nutrition

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Cyprus

About the Event

Following the 6th experimental archaeological workshop, in which we learn how to create ancient cooking pots from the Bronze Age, we will exhibit several different models of ancient cooking pots that were used in that era in various different places in the Mediterranean.

Fresco Mixtures with Dried Lime Plaster: Cameron’s Experiments Revisited

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Αntonis Vlavogilakis 1
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During the Bronze Age, craftspeople of the eastern Mediterranean reused fragments of mortars as aggregates in lime mixtures. In the 1970s, Mark Cameron experimented with the techniques of Minoan fresco preparing and painting. His experiments showed that it is possible to create mortar by mixing lime plaster with dried powdered lime plaster, and by mixing dried powdered lime plaster with water...

Pyrgos Mavroraki Smelting and Melting Experiments in a Metallurgical Workshop of the Second Millennium BC

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Maria Rosaria Belgiorno 1 ✉,
Livio Pontieri 1
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Interpreting the cultural influences of Cyprus in antiquity has posed an issue, depending on one’s point of view or the different conclusions reached. Until the 1970s, in large part due to the extensive excavations along the northern coast of Cyprus, it seemed reasonable to recognise a plethora of Aegean traits in the island culture. Every element of the Cypriot Bronze Age was analysed and interpreted in...

The 6th Archaeological Experimental Ceramics Workshop

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Cyprus

The 6th Archaeological Experimental Ceramics Workshop will take place this August in Foini!

In this workshop we will explore the techniques and technologies of the Bronze Age with the reconstruction of ancient cooking pots of Cyprus and the surrounding Mediterranean countries.