Bronze Age

CRAFTER: Re-creating Vatin Pottery 2: an Examination of Clay Quality and its Behaviour

Author(s)
Vesna Vučković 1,2
Dejan Jovanović 3
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The Bronze Age Vatin culture has been known in archaeology as a cultural phenomenon distinguished by a specific material culture which existed between c. 2200 to 1600 B.C. in the region of the southern part of the Pannonian Plain, and the area along the lower Sava river and south of the Danube river. The Vatin culture followed on from the Early Bronze Age cultures in the region, indicating stabilization in this area after the disintegration of the Aeneolithic Vučedol culture by tribes from the Russian steppe (Garašanin 1979, p. 504; cf.

ICA 2: Contributions of Experimental Archaeology to Excavation and Material Studies

Date
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Organised by
Museum of Art and History, Brussels – section of Egyptian Antiquities (BE)
Laboratoire Archéomatériaux et Prévision de l'Altération (FR)
Sorbonne Université Lettres - CNRS Orient & Méditerranée (FR)
Université MSH Paris-Saclay (FR)
KU Leuven - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (BE)
Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (DE)
Mines d’argent des Rois Francs de Melle (FR)
EXARC
Country
France

The first conference (ICA I) resulted in the foundations for a methodology, allowing experimental archeology to be a scientific research tool in its own right. Following these reflections, we hope that the participants, in their presentations and experiments, will also define and highlight the methodology they practice.

NESAT XIV FINLAND

Date
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Organised by
University of Oulu (FI)
Aalto University (FI)
University of Helsinki (FI)
Country
Finland

Due to the uncertain circumstances and evolving travel and gathering restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic the conference will be held only online.

​Conference fee ​

  • 30 € for employed registrants

  • 15 € for students and those working on scholarships

​Attendance awards

Chicken Festival

Date
Country
Germany

That rabbits do not lay eggs is known to most. But who knows when and how the human came to the chicken? On Easter Monday, the story of chicken farming is told in individual stages. First, the NAMU Bielefeld clarifies about the fossil relatives of the chickens - the dinosaurs. The Bronze Age is about the first tame poultry in Europe, the guinea fowl.