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Textile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots

Author(s)
Dave Meyers 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/4
The ‘West Coast Cumbria’ hoard, discovered in 2014, is a late ninth/ early tenth-century Viking silver hoard, housed at the Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, UK. It is composed of 20 Viking silver objects: bar-shaped ingots and ornaments, in various stages of fragmentation (PAS ‘Find-ID’ LANCUM-FA14C8). One, complete ingot (museum no. 2016.162.5) bears coarse cloth-impressions on its upper surface...

Public Access to (Pre-)History Through Archaeology

Author(s)
Katie Stringer Clary 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/3
Public history, like experimental archaeology, is relatively new as an accepted academic program; the two fields are intrinsically linked and should, ideally, use interdisciplinary collaboration to better educate and involve the public in their work. This paper presents case studies in education and interpretation by the author, as well as exemplary programs from various sites in the United States and Europe...

Conference Review: SAA General Session, Experimental Archaeology 2018

Author(s)
Yvette A Marks 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/3
The Society for American Archaeology is, perhaps with the exception of the World Archaeology Congress, the largest meeting of archaeologists in the world. The 2018 annual meeting was held in Washington DC and was attended by approximately 5000 archaeologists. Delegates were primarily from the States, but there was also a good international showing with attendees coming from around the world...

History in Motion: Colonial Williamsburg

Author(s)
Nikola Krstović 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/2
Boundaries are always an interesting topic. In the framework of the current heritage buzz word decolonization, boundaries might also represent what is “colonised” in every cultural enterprise, or to be more specific, how and why some form of power obtruded its authority, and to what extent. Like almost all other museums, Colonial Williamsburg deals with the past. The past has its own boundaries that...

Experimental Approaches to Student Success

Author(s)
Tim Messner 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/2
10th EAC Leiden 2017
***An undergraduate student who hopes to secure meaningful work or pursue graduate studies needs to have excellent grades. This is true for all disciplines, but especially for niche fields like archaeology. Grades alone, however, are rarely enough. Employers and graduate schools seek candidates that are not only ‘book smart’ but who have...

Maria-Louise Sidoroff PhD

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USA
Crafts & Skills
Ceramics

For over thirty years I have investigated the techniques of traditional modern potters. I use the information in technological analysis of prehistoric ceramics as I worked with directors of archaeological excavations earlier in Israel and Peru and now in Jordan.

ALHFAM 2018 Annual Conference - Interpreting Our Multicultural Past

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ALHFAM
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USA

Learn hands-on skills including: Traditional Cherokee crafts taught by National Treasures, historical cooking, military firearms, Poultry 101, and more. Conference sessions cover a wide range of topics from women’s suffrage, women soldiers, creating a period kitchen, and how to develop a living

Conference Review: Reconstructive & Experimental Archaeology Conference REARC 2017

Author(s)
Mahala Nyberg
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/1
REARC Conferences
***There was something for everyone at the 2017 Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference, as it represented many aspects of experimental archaeology. The conference took place between the 16th and 19th of November, 2017, at Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. Although it was a small conference...

Shifting the Sand: Replicating Black Powder Grenades

Author(s)
Stephen Lacey 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2018/1
Black powder hand grenades are ubiquitous for several European archaeological sites between 1600 AD and 1900 AD. Unfortunately, many archaeological reports only note the presence of hand grenades in artifact inventories, perhaps denoting some minor measurements. Only one report contains a full assessment of grenades, but this was performed by treasure hunters who excavated the pirate ship Whydah...

SAA Conference: Experimental Archaeology

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SAA (US)
Country
USA

There is lots of Experimental Archaeology at the SAA in Albuquerque (NM): 2 paper sessions, three poster sessions and many papers scattered accross other sessions. An excerpt: 

Paper Session: New Directions in Experimental Archaeology (1)

April 11, 2019
Room: 130 Cimarron
Time: 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Chair: Jeanne Binning
Participants: