Russia

Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Festival

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Institut Vremeni (RU)
Country
Russia

On April 27 2019 Institut Vremeni and Moscow Ethnographic Society are holding a local festival at Voronezh dedicated to Western European Palaeolithic-Mesolithic everyday life. Voronezh is home to the famous Kostenki site. The festival is largely supported by the Kostenki Museum and welcomes everyone brave enough to face Stone Age. 

Preliminary Observations of Potsherds Rounding in the Estuary of the Morye River – an Analog of Paleo-Okhta

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Alexander Akulov 1
Publication Date
One of the arguments proposed for interpreting the Neolithic site of Okhta as a settlement is the fact that potsherds found upon the site show no signs of rounding. Interpretation of the site as a settlement correlates poorly with the geological data, which suggests that, in the Neolithic period, the site was the bottom of a shallow bay of the Littorina Sea into which Paleo-Okhta and Paleo-Tosna flowed...

Archaeological Experiment on Reconstruction of the “Compound” Bow of the Sintashta Bronze Age Culture from the Stepnoe Cemetery

Author(s)
Ivan Semyan 1 ✉,
Spyros Bakas 2
Publication Date
#EAC12 World Tour 2021
***This article presents data from an international experimental study on the reconstruction of the “compound” bow of Sintashta culture of bronze age South Ural, Russia. The project is carried out by a collective of researchers from Greece and Russia as part of the grant program of EXARC - “Twinning program”...

Project Pilgrimage 21

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Company of Saynt George
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Switzerland
Denmark
Australia
USA
Germany
Russia
Norway
Sweden
Finland
the Netherlands
France
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Belgium
Luxembourg
Italy
Poland
Malta
Portugal

Project Pilgrimage 21 is a decentralised international medieval event organized by the Company of Saynt George, which connects reenactors and friends of living history all over the world in spring 2021. Follow the Pilgrimage 21 with the Pilgrimage 21 Social Wall or the #pilgrim

The Process of Making Schist Axes of Paja Ul Deˀŋ – “The People of Big Water”

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Alexander Akulov 1
Publication Date
Paja Ul Deˀŋ [padʒaul’deˀŋ] “The People of Big Water” is a conventional and compact name given to Neolithic inhabitants of the territories of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad region in their hypothetical reconstructed language (it is possible to state that these people spoke a language that was very close to Yeniseian languages). Paja Ul Deˀŋ made axes/adzes mainly of schist, a process that takes...

Magic Yule in the Medieval Town of Svargas

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Russia

According to tradition, Yule lasts 13 nights, which are called the "Nights of the Spirits". These thirteen nights, from the first sunset to the last dawn, are a gap between two years, a sacred period during which there is neither the usual time nor the usual boundaries, when the lot of the gods is decided and the spindle of the g

Northern Hike

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Country
Russia

The "Northern Campaign" in the Medieval town of Svargas is an event for boys of different ages and their parents, it will be especially interesting and informative to take on the role of trackers and hikers. Get useful skills for a successful campaign: how to light a fire, how to find landmarks in the area, how to cook a marching

Flame of Arkaim

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Organised by
Archaeos - Experimental Archaeology Association
Archaeological Reserve ARKAIM
Country
Russia

On September 5, the IV festival of living history "Flame of Arkaim" will be held, organized by our Association and the Archaeological Reserve ARKAIM.