Bronze Age

Event Review: Bronze Casting in Daugailiai, Lithuania

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E. Giovanna Fregni 1
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...

Tom Hicks

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I started experimental archaeology work in 2017 during my undergrad at Cardiff University, continuing this in my archaeology degrees, as a self-employed heritage educator and as a craftsperson making archaeological reproductions for heritage organisations.

Gala State Historical-Ethnography Reserve

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"Gala" State Historical-Ethnography Reserve is located in the village of Gala, an ancient settlement occupying a unique place in the cultural heritage of Absheron. 

The territory of the site, located about 40km from Baku, is over 81,5 hectares. You can find yourself in both the Bronze Age and a medieval village in an amazing open-air museum in Azerbaijan. Here you’ll witness rock paintings, constructions and everyday items from the 3rd-2nd millennia BC and climb to the top of a fortress dating from 15th centuries, from where an incredible view opens up of the Absheron Peninsula. In the medieval town, meanwhile, you’ll discover how the ancestors of Azerbaijani people lived and see their clothes, crockery, coins and ornaments.