Chalcolithic

The Launching of the IFEA "Living Laboratory"

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Israel

We are happy to invite you to the first meeting, not in Zoom, but in-person at the complex that will very soon become the living laboratory of the Israeli Forum for Experimental Archeology!!!

Tuesday, 13.07.2021, 6 pm, JNF compound at Givat Yeshayahu

Anniversary:10 years UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps

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Switzerland

For the anniversary «10 years UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps» we are going to the lake together with the Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology. At the Zuger Landsgemeindeplatz we provide information about the world heritage and the pile dwelling.

South West Bushcraft & Outdoor Show

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United Kingdom

2021 sees the first South West Bushcraft & Outdoor Show!

Promoting traditional crafts, primitive skills and bushcraft. Journey back in time by visiting our Anglo Saxon woodland farmstead, where you can witness and try your hand at an array of different traditional skills and crafts to understand how our ancestor's lived off the land.

The Many Faces of Experimental Archaeology

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Austria

Experimental archaeology combines scientific research methodology with traditional craftsmanship, public relations and community building. Matilda Siebrecht (PhD Student at the University of Groningen and host of the podcast series 'The EXARC Show') and Franz Pieler discuss the opportunities of experimental archaeology as a research approach.

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

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Merryn Dineley 1
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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

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Carol van Driel-Murray 1
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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...