United Kingdom

Iron Age INSET Day

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United Kingdom

Experience the Iron Age first-hand through an interactive talk and primitive skills workshops! Designed for teachers and Iron Age enthusiasts, this INSET day will help to support your KS2 topic, "Britain from the Stone to the Iron Age" and will give you a unique opportunity to learn and teach more about our past through hands-on experiences!

Bronze Age INSET Day

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United Kingdom

Experience the Bronze Age first-hand through an interactive talk and primitive skills workshops! Designed for teachers and Prehistory enthusiasts, this INSET day will help to support your KS2 topic, "Britain from the Stone to the Iron Age" and will give you a unique opportunity to learn and teach more about our past through hands-on experiences!

Stone Age INSET Day

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United Kingdom

Experience the Neolithic era of the Stone Age first-hand through an interactive talk and primitive skills workshops! Designed for teachers and Stone Age enthusiasts, this INSET day will help to support your KS2 topic, "Britain from the Stone to the Iron Age" and will give you a unique opportunity to learn and teach more about our past through hands-on experiences!

 

Conference Review: EAStS 2018 – 1st Experimental Archaeology Student Symposium, Newcastle Upon Tyne

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Marco Romeo-Pitone 1
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On the first day of the Symposium, after a brief introduction to the conference by Marco Romeo Pitone (EXARN), a series of interesting talks were presented by post graduate students from universities across the UK and beyond.

Trial By Fire Conference

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UCL (UK)
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United Kingdom

Free to attend. Fire always leaves its mark and a wealth of information behind. This conference aims to explore these events by bringing together ideas from across archaeological and anthropological sub-disciplines. Registration now extended until 31 March 2019.

Where: UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, Kings Cross, London WC1H 0PY, UK

CIMA 2019 - Past & Future Agricultures

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Organised by
International Association of Agricultural Museums (AIMA)
Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)(UK)
University of Reading (UK)
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United Kingdom

CIMA 19, the triennial Congress of the International Association of Agricultural Museums (AIMA), will be held in 2020 at the Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL), University of Reading.

Experimental Archaeology in the Scottish Highlands

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Susan Kruse 1
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Over the past year, Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH) has been running a series of experimental archaeology workshops in the Scottish Highlands. ARCH is a non-profit educational charity, providing learning opportunities inside and out for all ages, always with an eye on the legacy of the event. Our experimental archaeology project was a good example of this approach...

The Construction of a Skin-on-Frame Coracle at Kierikki Stone Age Centre

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Peter Groom 1 ✉,
India McDermott 1,
Evon Kirby 1
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In July 2018 a group of students from the UK participating in the Placements in Environmental, Archaeological and Traditional Skills (PEATS) Erasmus + Work Placement, attended the Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Pahkalantie, Finland. During the week previous to this experiment, the same group of students had built a skin-on-frame canoe, so the decision was taken to build an alternative lightweight craft...

Early Efforts in Experimental Archaeology: Examples from Evans, Pitt-Rivers, and Abbott

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Carolyn Dillian 1
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Experimental archaeology formally began more than 150 years ago with attempts in replicative flint knapping by well-known archaeologists such as Sir John Evans, Augustus (Lane Fox) Pitt-Rivers, John Lubbock, and Sven Nilsson (Coles, 1973). These individuals sought to discover how stone tools were made in order to better identify archaeological artifacts as the products of human manufacture and to understand...