Iron Age

Culinary Weekend

Culinary Weekend
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Country

  • the Netherlands

Pierre Wind is busy both days with insect snacks from prehistoric times, Roman dishes for young and old, to medieval roasts.

International Iron Smelting Days

Date
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Country

  • the Netherlands

The annual Iron Smelting Days are the largest gathering of its kind in Europe, with blacksmiths, artists and archaeologists gathering around a dozen or so iron smelting furnaces.  It is a unique chance to learn a lot in very short time about the process of producing iron in the old days.

Origin of the Book of Kells

Origin of the Book of Kells
Date
Organised by
Tarbat Discovery Centre

Country

  • United Kingdom

Dr Victoria Thompson Whitworth will present her latest research exploring new theories about the creation of the Book of Kells and its potential ties to Pictish eastern Scotland. At the end of her talk, she will be joined by Master Craftsman Thomas Keyes, who will add his findings from recent archaeological experiments he is conducting.

Baking Bread in the Riff Area (Morocco): An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Iron Age Archaeological Ovens

Baking Bread in the Riff Area (Morocco): An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Iron Age Archaeological Ovens
Author(s)
Maria Carme Belarte 1, 2 ✉,
Maria Anguera 2,
Marta Mateu 2,
María Pastor Quiles 2, 3
Publication Date
We present the result of our fieldwork conducted in the Riff area (Morocco), where, through the participant observation technique, we have analysed the characteristics and functioning of several bread-baking traditional ovens that are still working in the region. We were able to observe the chaîne opératoire of the process of baking bread...

The Salme Ship Burials

The Salme Ship Burials. The Salme II Ship Burial restored iron fibula no SM10602:325. Photo by Tiia Lahti
Author(s)
Jouni Jäppinen 1 ✉
Publication Date
With the help of experimental reproduction of archaeological artefacts, it is possible to study how and from which materials that objects might have been made in the Iron Age. Reproductions are carried out with items such as weapons, accessories, jewellery, buildings, food, ceramics, tools, working methods, and many others...

The Lefkandi-Toumba Building as a Timber-Framed Structure

Idealised reconstruction of a cross-section of the building in the area east of Β-Β΄, with ‘prop-and-ridgepole’ or ‘column-and-ridgepole’ roof construction.
Author(s)
Alexandra Coucouzeli 1 ✉,
Allan McRobie 2,
Igor Kavrakov 2
Publication Date
The article demonstrates that the building or megaron on the Toumba hill at Lefkandi (Euboea), dating from c.950 BC, was a timber-framed structure, in contrast to the common view of it as a building with loadbearing walls. This raises the possibility that the walls, perhaps even parts of the frame and the roof, were still under construction...