Transportation

As a retired pilot, I enjoy studying history and especially mythology and pre-historic era. Using methods of "strategic analysis" I try to approach the truth of ancient people's way of life and their technology.

Projects:
Castellum Drive-in Museum (Woerden, NL), Limes Visitor Centre NIGRVM PVLLVM (Zwammerdam, NL), Park Matilo (Leiden, NL)

Present projects:

My career in experimental aspects of ancient ship design and construction started in 1981 with the construction of the late Tim Severin's Sindbad Voyage. Following that my interests expanded to maritime archaeology and ethnography.

Lecturer with PhD. My specialist in Experimental Archaeology, My PhD. experimentation was about transporting amphorae by camels on the eastern desert road in the Roman era. I Am a very passionate and active individual.

Municipal Archaeologist of Wijk bij Duurstede/ Dorestad. I have been involved in experimenting with food in the past 25 years.

I'm a PhD student from Ukraine and a member of the living history club "Zastava (Stronghold)". I working on my dissertation about medieval log-boats from the southwestern lands of Kievan Rus' in the 10th-13th centuries.

Dr Peter Groom is an Experimental Archaeologist (MA) and Environmentalist (MSc). He is a director of the Mesolithic Resource Group (www.mesolithic.org.uk).

I started experiments with the construction of coracles and other boats about twenty years ago.

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.

I became involved with experimental archaeology while working at the Irish National Heritage Park during my bachelor studies and then pursued experimental research for both by MA and PhD (at University College Dublin), which focused on early medieval house reconstructions.