Early Middle Ages

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.

Slav Days

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Germany

The Slavs are a fascinating ethnic group. In the early Middle Ages, their settlement area also extended into our region - after authentic archaeological reconstructions, an early medieval Slavic village can therefore be seen in the historical park.

Latvijas Arheoklubs (LV)

The society "Latvijas Arheoklubs" unites 20 members with a practical interest in the prehistory of the Baltic region. The group started in 2009 and in 2015 the society (NGO) was officially registered.

The society organizes and its members often are involved in different educational activities (like demonstrations of prehistoric and traditional skills and crafts, lectures about archaeology and experimental archaeology) in collaboration with different museums and municipalities, like Daugava Museum at Dole Island and Āraiši Archaeological Park.

Recreating Historic European Spindle Spinning

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Mary Ann Megan Cleaton 1 ✉,
Alice Rose Evans 1,
Jane Hunt 1,
Cathelina di Alessandri 1
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Spinning is a vital step in the production of textiles, whereby fibres are drawn out (drafted) and twisted together to make thread. In the present day, several culturally unique types of spinning are recognised, such as the thigh-rolling technique of traditional Navajo spinners who use unusually large spindles in a supported style (Wolf Creek, 2009)...

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.