Bronze Age

Archaeological Experiment on Reconstruction of the “Compound” Bow of the Sintashta Bronze Age Culture from the Stepnoe Cemetery

Author(s)
Ivan Semyan 1 ✉,
Spyros Bakas 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2021/2
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***This article presents data from an international experimental study on the reconstruction of the “compound” bow of Sintashta culture of bronze age South Ural, Russia. The project is carried out by a collective of researchers from Greece and Russia as part of the grant program of EXARC - “Twinning program”...

Pyrgos Mavroraki Smelting and Melting Experiments in a Metallurgical Workshop of the Second Millennium BC

Author(s)
Maria Rosaria Belgiorno 1 ✉,
Livio Pontieri 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2021/2
Interpreting the cultural influences of Cyprus in antiquity has posed an issue, depending on one’s point of view or the different conclusions reached. Until the 1970s, in large part due to the extensive excavations along the northern coast of Cyprus, it seemed reasonable to recognise a plethora of Aegean traits in the island culture. Every element of the Cypriot Bronze Age was analysed and interpreted in...

The Ancient Magic of Malt: Making Malt Sugars and Ale from Grain Using Traditional Techniques

Author(s)
Merryn Dineley 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2021/2
The transformation of grain into malt, malt sugars and ale is a three step process. First, the controlled germination (malting), then ‘mashing in’ and collecting a sweet liquid known as wort and finally, the fermentation by pitching the yeast which converts the sugary wort into an alcoholic beverage. Each step requires different conditions for the process to work. They cannot be combined...

Book Review: Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies by Theresa Emmerich Kamper

Author(s)
Carol van Driel-Murray 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2021/2
This volume on prehistoric tanning technology is the revised and expanded version of the dissertation submitted to Exeter University in 2015. It is noteworthy in that it places experiment at the heart of the entire research programme, thereby radically changing the perspective from which archaeological and ethnographic artefacts might be approached...

Erik Rörsch

Member of EXARC since
Country
the Netherlands
Crafts & Skills
Other

Since 2012 I am helping to get started and to continue the archeological research on Salamis island, specifically around Ambelakia bay. Known from the 480 BC Battle of Salamis. We are also trying to setup an archeological park there.

The 6th Archaeological Experimental Ceramics Workshop

The 6th Archaeological Experimental Ceramics Workshop
Date
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Organised by
Andreas Fasoulides
Country
Cyprus

The 6th Archaeological Experimental Ceramics Workshop will take place this August in Foini!

In this workshop we will explore the techniques and technologies of the Bronze Age with the reconstruction of ancient cooking pots of Cyprus and the surrounding Mediterranean countries.