Construction of Buildings

Historical and Archaeological Interpretation

Since 1993 I work on the field of living history, mainly covering the Middle Ages. I hold lectures in schools, kindergartens & universities in medieval clothing and equipment. I explain the development of arms and armour.

I am an early technology specialist, conservation carpenter and master thatcher using researched techniques and materials for experimental archaeology purposes.

Jaap Hogendoorn, Springlevend Verleden (Alive and kicking past)
Organiser, producer, storyteller, craftsman, builder, fighter.

My involvement with experimental archaeology started with a full-scale reconstruction of an early medieval 'Frisian' farm building in the north of the Netherlands.

Tim Clerbaut (° Ekeren, 1988) is an academic assistant in Provincial Roman Archaeology at Ghent University.  He studied archaeology at Ghent University, where he obtained a master degree in Geoarchaeology and Archaeology of North West Europe.

I am not a professionally trained archaeologist. I am a physicist by training. Until recently I was a research scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information technology at the University of California at San Diego.

My (large scale) experiments investigating my concepts as to how, specifically, large stone blocks were lifted by the Old Kingdom Egyptians commenced in 2005, although I had reduced to paper such concepts several years earlier.

I started doing indoor climate experiments in a reconstructed Viking Age house (Hedeby / Haithabu) in February 2009 (four weeks), and did another longer one from October – November 2011 (five weeks) and February – April 2012 (ten weeks).

Starting activities in 1987, first flint knapping. Later on I did all kinds of things, as long as they fit into the Dutch Mesolithic-period.