Early Middle Ages
Summer Celebration
Two-day Summer Celebration of the Association Bajuwarenhof Kirchheim e.V., near Muenich, Germany.
This includes demonstrations of all kinds of crafts. There will be plenty to eat and drink too.
Daily entrance: 11:00h - 17:00h.
ACE - Conference on African Experimental Archaeology
On behalf of the organizing committee, we invite you to participate in the African Conference on Experimental Archaeology (ACE), in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference will be held at the Wits Club, University of the Witwatersrand. ACE encourages the exchange and sharing of new work in scientific experiments and closely related activities focussing on African and Africanist research.
REARC Conference
This year the REARC meetings are scheduled for October 25th and 26th in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia. We are excited to announce that the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington will host Friday presentations. And on Saturday, REARC craftspeople will hold a variety of demonstrations/workshops at George Washington’s Ferry Farm.
Conference Review: EXARC at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (USA)
Connemara Heritage and History Centre (IE)
The Connemara Heritage Centre is an open-air museum near Clifden, County Galway, in the Connemara region, Ireland. The Centre introduces the history of the area from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
The centre's attractions include audiovisual and history presentations, as well as outdoor exhibits including reconstructions like the reconstructions of the crannóg, ring fort and a clochaun give an insight into life in ancient times.
Early Medieval Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
This Sunday will focus on all facets of medieval agriculture and cattle farming. Whether it is the harvesting and processing of grains, the working with draft-oxen, or the keeping of sheep. All these topics and many more are presented to the visitors of the open-air laboratory with practical demonstrations.
Opening times: 11:00h - 17:00h
Qasrin Ancient Village (SY)
The Qasrin Ancient Village (Hebrew: קצרין העתיקה; also Katrzin, Kasrin, Qisrin) is an open-air museum located in the Golan Heights on the outskirts of Katzrin. It features the reconstructed remains of a Talmudic-era village.
The Byzantine (4th – 8th century AD) village was built around a spring. Later Muslim occupation occurred in the Mamluk and modern periods. Although there were standing ruins on the site, archaeological excavations have increased the number of accessible ancient buildings.
Giorgi Chitaia Open-Air Museum (GE)
The Open-Air Museum of Ethnography is located 3 km south-west from Tbilisi at the Turtle Lake. The museum is named after the Georgian ethnographer who founded the museum. It represents a kind of a Georgian village where every house and every estate are a reflection of the different eras of Georgian history. It is 65 hectares large and is arranged in eleven zones, displaying around 70 buildings, starting from the Bronze Age up to the early 20th century.
One of the most famous houses is a reconstruction of an ancient Georgian dwelling - "darbazi", which looks like if it is dug into the earth surface; the roof resembles a beehive. This type of structure was used from the Bronze Age until the early 20th century AD. There are also an early Christian "Sioni" basilica from Tianeti and a 6th-7th century familial burial vault with sarcophagus.
Archaeological Feast at the Goths’ Village
Archaeological research into the culture of the Goths in the Hrubieszów Basin started in 1977. Since the very beginning, the importance of the discoveries, attractive artifacts and exceptional funeral customs of those who inhabited the region 1700 years ago have been the focus of public interest.