Early Middle Ages
Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2014
***Volume number 13 of the periodical Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa. Bilanz contains 215 pages with 18 different articles on a wide variety of subjects. The contributions are presented in four sections: Experiment and Test, Reconstruction Archaeology, Theory and Emanation’, and Short reports...
Marianne Talma cand. PhD
I'm currently awaiting graduation after handing in my master's thesis about polychrome decorative patination techniques in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age.
Archeoparco Didattico della Fortezza di Radicofani (IT)
At the Archeoparco Didattico della Fortezza di Radicofani one can learn about the history of human being over the past 4,000 years, all in one place.
Similar to a Chinese bag, it has a Copper Age site in its centre, covered by a medieval fortress, surrounded by a big and beautiful 18th century fortress, all of it embedded in a forest. The site is on top of an old volcanic cone. Being open since 2006, the Archeoparco Didattico della Fortezza di Radicofani exists of several living history areas in and around the fortress and in the forest. The goals are to maintain and preserve the site, lifelong learning and teach the visitors about their roots for a better understanding with the new generation.
Daniël Postma PhD
My involvement with experimental archaeology started with a full-scale reconstruction of an early medieval 'Frisian' farm building in the north of the Netherlands.
Yeavering Reconsidered
1987 ESF Proceedings
The 1980s was the beginning of a boom in the construction of archaeologically inspired buildings inside and outside archaeological open-air museums.
***Brian Hope-Taylor’s report (1977) on his excavations at Yeavering was received with a unanimous fanfare of approval from reviewers...
Museum Theatre in Greece: Perspectives in Site Interpretation
Introduction
Museum theatre as an umbrella-term is used to describe a variety of performative events aimed to interpret fragments of cultural heritage. In the framework of one of the main challenges contemporary museums face, that of having a social impact while dealing with heritage, whom values and narratives can always be “contested and disputed” (Smith 2011, 70), museum theatre has proved that not only can it enforce a constructivist approach in a museum environment but it can also generate debate and promote critical thinking on controversial issues (Farthing 2010).
Dark Ages Weekend
Join us for a day of early medieval living history
- Meet the Saxon Forager
- Listen to the Dark Bardess playing a replica of the Sutton Hoo lyre
- Living History displays & demonstrations
- Scrummy tea and homemade cake
- WI BBQ and hot food available
- Have a go historical crafts
- Storytelling and more
Conference Review: 9th Experimental Archaeology Conference, Dublin 2015
***The ninth Experimental Archaeology Conference was held over 16-18 January 2015 at University College Dublin (Ireland). A large gathering of nearly 200 delegates from more than 25 countries across the EU and the Americas was hosted by UCD School of Archaeology and the Irish National Heritage Park. Twenty papers and 26 posters...
Erin Halstad McGuire BA MPhil PhD
I specialise in Early Medieval/Viking archaeology and in the anthropology of death. My PhD thesis, completed in 2009, examined the impact of migration on Norse identities in the North Atlantic through funerary remains.