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Bronze Age

Event Review: Bronze Casting in Daugailiai, Lithuania

Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
On 13 July 2024 the village of Daugailiai celebrated the 770th year of its founding on with a festival that included demonstrations and experiments in bronze casting. Daugailiai is a village in Utena County in Northeast Lithuania. The village features a hillfort, which is dated to 1st millennium BC-beginning of 1st Millenium AD, upon which a castle was built in 1254 and...

Archeologia Open-Air

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Country

  • Italy

The Bostel di Rotzo will host a workshop entitled ´Archeologia Open-Air. Management, digital innovation and community approaches for parks and open-air museums´.

Hay is for Horses: Making and Using a Traditional-Style Irish Straw Harness

Author(s)
Rena Maguire 1 ✉,
Robert Johnston 2
Publication Date
The lack of metal lorinery in the archaeological record of early medieval Ireland is addressed through a hypothesis that post-Iron Age bridles were made of straw and rushes, which did not survive deposition. Reconstruction and testing of a straw bridle show the material to be strong and quite suitable for vernacular use...

Digitalisation in Open-Air Museums and Reconstructions

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Organised by
EXARC

Country

  • the Netherlands

This conference is open to all people with a museum or technical background who are interested in digital tools in the cultural sector. Our focus is on museums and other parties working with reconstructions (for example replica ships or other constructions that are not permanently tied to a museum).

Using Archaeology for Recovery

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Organised by
Bournemouth University

Country

  • United Kingdom
  • Ukraine

On Friday, 5 July 2024, Bournemouth University will be holding a Seminar/Training Event on Using Archaeology for Recovery. Speakers with a wide knowledge of running projects that assist those who have suffered from trauma, especially on the battlefield, will be sharing their experiences with those who wish to run similar projects.