Bronze Age

Parco Archeo Natura di Fiavé

Member of EXARC
No

The parco delle palafitte is nearly complete now, opening in June 2021: a journey into prehistory between archaeology and nature, discovering a UNESCO world heritage site, preserved in the Fiavé torbiera.

A fascinating and immersive time travel in the atmosphere of the villaggio palafitticolo di Fiavé will make possible to under stand our ancestors' life during Bronze Age. Fiavé is one of the 111 places, together with Ledro, part of palafitte preistoriche dell’arco alpino site; it is included in  the UNESCO world heritage from 2011.

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Jahrbuch 2020

Author(s)
Stefanie Ulrich 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2021/2
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***The 19th issue of the periodical includes 19 essays over 231 pages which present the contributions of the EXAR conference held in 2019. The annual report (Jahresbericht, p.225) and the instructions for authors (Autorenrichtlinien, p.229) of Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa can be found at the end...

Priae (FR)

The Research Center for Interpretation and Experimental Archeology (Pôle de recherche, interprétation et archéologie expérimentale, PRIAE) is a international initiative.

Research, interpretation and experimental archeology center - its main objective is to increase the knowledge about the musical practice of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, as we ll as the inventory, study and valuation of artefacts adjoining.

Università degli Studi di Padova (IT)

Member of EXARC
No

Padua University, at the Dept. of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology, History of Art, of Music and Cinema is one of the few Italian universities to have an official Laboratory of Experimental Archaeology and this last matter as a study course.

It is called L.A.S.eR.T. (Laboratory of Experimental Archaeology and Research on Ancient Technology), and at present is directed by Massimo Vidale and Ivana Angelini. We have wide a semi-open, covered space with three different potter's wheels, a good set of all the necessary tools, a wide collections of waste material from copper melting, glass making, flint knapping material used in our classes to help students to understand which kind of residues they should expect, when dealing with an ancient workshop, and "alphabetize" our students in a basic dimension of materiality.

Crafts Weekend

Crafts Weekend
Date
-
Organised by
Prehistorisch Dorp (NL)
Country
the Netherlands

The craft weekends are entirely devoted to the special historical crafts from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages. Every weekend there is a different theme, such as pottery, blacksmithing or clothing and textile processing. 

For anyone interested in crafts or history in general, these are the weekends you don't want to miss!

Experimental Roman Minting: Casting Silver-Copper Alloys into a Bronze Mould

Author(s)
Nicola George 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2021/1
#EAC12 World Tour 2021
***This paper provides the details of a Roman minting experiment, which used a bronze mould to cast debased silver blanks typical of the third century A.D. The investigation follows the paper ''Experiments reproducing Roman debased alloys" (George, 2020) which studied the manufacturing methods used...