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Book Review: Experimental Archaeology – Between Enlightenment and Experience by Petersson and Narmo

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Jodi Reeves Flores 1 ✉
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This book developed from the project Experimental Archaeology – Between Enlightenment and Experience, which was composed of a series of regional meetings held in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. This hardbound publication contains quality illustrations and colour photographs; and the language revision has been done to a solid quality...

Obituary: Ole Crumlin-Pedersen (24 February 1935 - 14 October 2011)

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Tinna Damgård-Sørensen 1 ✉
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On 14 October 2011, Ole Crumlin-Pedersen passed away after a long period of illness, aged 76. Ole Crumlin-Pedersen, born 24 February 1935 in Hellerup, Denmark dedicated his life to maritime cultural heritage, maritime archaeology and old ships...

Varus and the Lost Legions in Sagnlandet Lejre - A Re-enactment Success?

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Ane Jepsen 1 ✉
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In July 2009 a battle took place in Sagnlandet Lejre, in the heart of Zealand in Denmark. The battle was a dramatized re-enactment of the historical battle of Teutoburg forest in Niedersachsen in the year 9 AD - also known as the Varus Battle. Why should such a re-enactment event take place in Denmark - over 100 kilometres from the presumed site of the historic battle?...

The Experiment and the Umbrella - 10 Years of Experimental Archaeology

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Marianne Bloch Hansen 1 ✉
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When reading articles about experimental archaeology written within the last 10 years or so, I find that they often take their point of departure in a brief explanation of the history of the experiment; the birth of the experiment within the positivistic research tradition in the processual archaeology of the 1960s and 1970s, and subsequently, the development and discussions during the postprocessual archaeology of the 1980s.