Bronze Age

Event Review: CRAFTER: Back to Bronze Age Craftsmanship: International Meeting of Potters and Archaeologists

Author(s)
Ágnes Király 1
Publication Date
At the end of October 2018, nearly 30 experts – potters and archaeologists – met in the city of Mula (Murcia, Spain) to study Europe’s Bronze Age pottery-making techniques. The event was the initiation stage of the CRAFTER project (Crafting Europe in the Bronze Age and Today), implemented in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 and the Creative Europe Program...

Book Review: Crafting in the World, Materiality in the Making by Burke and Spencer-Wood

Author(s)
Linda Anderson 1
Publication Date
Archaeologists dream of books with comprehensive coverage that address specific gaps in knowledge and at the same time address theoretical issues and newer concerns about the nature of craft in a direct method. Editors Burke and Spencer-Wood fulfil this by discussing the world of craft...

Trial By Fire Conference

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Organised by
UCL (UK)
Country
United Kingdom

Free to attend. Fire always leaves its mark and a wealth of information behind. This conference aims to explore these events by bringing together ideas from across archaeological and anthropological sub-disciplines. Registration now extended until 31 March 2019.

Where: UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, Kings Cross, London WC1H 0PY, UK

Flint Knapping Symposium

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Italy

The thirteenth edition of the Flint Knapping Symposium will take place this year. The practical annual conference in training and continuing education is dedicated to professionals in the field of flint knapping. The program will take place from May 29 to June 1, 2019 at the archeoParc in Val Senales valley, with work sessions planned as well as excursions to the surrounding area.

Time travel. The fortified settlement of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age

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Country
Poland

This is the second part of our new series the "Time travel". This event is dedicated to the inhabitants of the settlement from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. During this journey you will learn how 2.700 years ago the settlement was built on the peninsula of the Biskupin Lake.

Guided Excursion by Logboat

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Country
Germany

Uniquely in northern Germany, you can experience an excursion in a prehistoric watercraft, the dugout. The certified nature and landscape guide Andrea Menzel takes you into the colourful diversity of the floodplain landscape. Equipped with binoculars, life vests and paddles, the excursion participants glide silently over Hitzacker Lake.

Paths of archaeology. Science - Culture - Pop culture

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Country
Poland

Are you interested in the scientific research and achievements of archaeology? Are you a schoolmate and don’t you know what to choose to study in the future? Are you a teacher or a parent and do you want to inspire children with the scientific knowledge?

Session Experimental Archaeology in the Balkans: Summa Summarum

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Organised by
Serbian Archaeological Society (RS)
EXARC
Country
Serbia

Until recently, in the Balkans, experimental archaeology was not considered as something that could contribute to science. For decades, this useful and fruitful branch of archaeology represents a genuine scientific discipline in a number of western and central European countries, as well as in Russia.

Archaeological Spring in Biskupin

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Country
Poland

We will open the new tourist season with a bang! We invite you for a picnic to Biskupin. "Archaeological spring" is an event during which our park wakes up after the winter and teems with new spring life. Exhibitors and workshops will be waiting for visitors, including flintstone, prehistoric and early medieval weaving, pottery, and making decorations worn by the inhabitants of