Spain

CRAFTER: Reviving Bronze Age Pottery in EU-funded Project

Author(s)
Carlos Velasco 1 ✉
Miguel Valério 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/3
The CRAFTER project aims at reviving modern-day artisanship by drawing inspiration from pottery traditions of four of the most remarkable Bronze Age societies of Europe: El Argar (south-eastern Spain), Únětice (Central Europe), Füzesabony (eastern Hungary) and Vatin (south Serbia)...

Learning to Recreate, Recreating to Learn. Experimental Archaeology

Author(s)
Beatriz Comendador 1 ✉,
Aaron Lackinger 1,2,
Elin Figueiredo 1,3
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/2
10th EAC Leiden 2017
***This paper aims to present and discuss ongoing activities that combine Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology developed in the scope of a master's degree, a post-doctoral and other research projects at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain), in collaboration with regional open-air museums and educational centres...

3rd Day of Experimental Universitaria

Date
Organised by
Universida de Vigo (ES)
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (ES)
GEPN.AAT
Country
Spain

Program 10:00h - 17:00h

OPERATION OF A GLASS FURNACE
Experience of the behavior of molten glass in a previously prepared oven.

EXPERIMENTING WITH PIGMENTS AND AGLUTINANTS
Experience based on the elaboration of different pigments (iron oxides) mixed with different binders and subjected to different temperatures.

Workshop "from iron ore to metal", with Master Blacksmith Thomas Mink

Date
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Organised by
Poblado Cántabro de Argüeso (ES)
Country
Spain

Thomas Mink is a professional blacksmith and expert in the experimental archeology of iron with great experience. 

Activities
# Experimenting with the production of iron
# Construction of the reduction furnace
# Construction of a spearhead
# Explaining on crushing the iron ore, types of coals, history of metal and blacksmithing tools

The Experimental Building of a Wooden Watchtower in the Carolingian Southern Frontier

Author(s)
Imma Ollich-Castanyer 1,2 ✉,
Albert Pratdesaba 2,
Montserrat de Rocafiguera 2,
Maria Ocaña 2,
Oriol Amblàs 2,
M. Àngels Pujol 2,
David Serrat 2,3
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/1
10th EAC Leiden 2017
***During fifteen days of June 2015, the team of l’Esquerda worked in a research project to build a Carolingian wooden watchtower on the River Ter, in Roda de Ter, Catalonia, Spain. The idea was to test our hypotheses experimentally, (a) if the wooden watchtower could...

Some Remarks on Technological Process of Tartessian Pottery

Author(s)
Michał Krueger 1 ✉,
Marta Krueger 2,
Karol Jakubowski 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/1
This paper makes an attempt to examine the Tartessian ceramics not from a traditional typological posture seeking the chronological sequences, but from an uncommon approach, where experiment plays an important role. The goal is to shed light on these still relatively weakly recognised aspects of the study of the pottery from the South-western part of Iberian Peninsula...

Poblado Cántabro de Argüeso (ES)

Member of EXARC
Yes

From 1995 onward, the association Cantabria Ancestral worked with enthusiasm and many friends to create a site themed with the Iberian Iron Age at the Iberian peninsula. The original site was excavated by the Italian archaeologist Vitrubio.

From 1995 onward, the association Cantabria Ancestral worked with enthusiasm and many friends to create a site themed with the Iberian Iron Age at the Iberian peninsula. The original site was excavated by the Italian archaeologist Vitrubio...

Conference Review: Fifth International Congress of Experimental Archaeology, Tarragona (Spain), October 2017

Author(s)
Francesca Romagnoli 1,
Javier Baena Preysler 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/1
Experimental archaeology is an important methodological resource for academic and historical scientific research, not separated from the rest of archaeological and historical sciences, and usually used to interpret the formation of the archaeological record and past human behaviour. Moreover, experimental archaeology has a great significance as part of archaeological diffusion, historical reconstructions, and education...

Book Review: Playing with the Time. Experimental Archaeology and the Study of the Past by Rodrigo Alonso, David Canales, Javier Baena (Eds.)

Author(s)
Rena Maguire 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/1
Increasingly, there is an appreciation of using experimental work to reconstruct how people squared up to the challenges of what life was like in the past. It is a field of archaeology which has caught the public imagination, so this collection of conference papers, Playing with the Time, edited by Alonso, Canale and Baena, has considerable potential to reach a wider market than just academics...