Living History

I am an independent artist working directly with the public, using the traditional trade of silhouettes. I interpret  and demonstrate the role of portraiture, and society experiences with portraits, chiefly between 1700-1920 (Modern Era).

Interested priarily in the technology and crafts of the paleolithic period.

Current interests include making and using reproductions of embroidered leather shoes, bone ice skates, and functional leather shoes, as well as demonstrating them, studying their effectiveness, and teaching others about them.

Bronze casting, metal smelting and filigree-work enthusiast.

Current projects: Early Bronze Age Copper Smelting in the Alps; Early Medieval Iron Smelting in Northeast Bavaria; Filigree jewelry of early medieval Great Moravia/Bohemia.
 

My grandmother took me to Archeon when I was a small child, from that moment on I was interested in everything having to do with sustainable living inspired by prehistory. Right now, I am a prehistory guide in Archeon.

Archaeologist with a passion for finds, research interests includes tools, typologies, and 'household' archaeology.

Started back in 2010 as a founder member of the Ukrainian living history association Varuforos, which represented the military society of Kyiv in the mid-10th century.

I am a PhD student at the University of South Florida where I am currently engaging in textiles and dress from a digital archaeology perspective. Tools being utilized include digital photogrammetry and structured light scanning.

Hello! My interest in archaeological reseaerch has always been directed towards the study of the eating behaviours of past communities and aims to better understand their social and cultural dynamics.

I make insular manuscripts and their material components including parchment and pigments under period conditions.