Iron Age

The Textile Dimension - Textile Finds in Archaeology

The Textile Dimension - Textile Finds in Archeology
Date
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Organised by
Department of Christian Archeology - University of Bonn

Country

  • Germany

A conference on early archaeological textiles, starting from the Neolithic and running until the Early Middle Ages, organized by Department of Christian Archeology at the University of Bonn.

You can find the program in PDF format here(link is external).

South West Bushcraft & Outdoor Show

South West Bushcraft & Outdoor Show
Date
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Country

  • 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.

Cob Roundhouse Demo Days

Cob Roundhouse Demo Days
Date
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Country

  • Ireland

Over the next month, Gerry Cussen and Dylan Mc Guirk will be in the Park finishing up the cob roundhouse which was started last year as a workshop by Cob On. Unfortunately, this year Gerry won’t be running cobbing workshops but please call in if you would like to see how it’s progressing.

A Discussion on the Position of Weaving in the Society of Prehistoric Britain

Author(s)
Helen Poulter 1,2 ✉
Publication Date
There have been several recent experiments on using warp-weighted looms in Demark, Italy and Greece, some in Roman houses (Andersson Strand, 2015; Dimova, 2016). The experiments, in particular those in Denmark and Netherlands, took place in the typical rectangular longhouses used in their respective prehistories, unlike 'Britain's predominant roundhouses...

Throwing Punic Amphorae: An Archaeological and Experimental Approach to the use of the Potter's Wheel in southern Iberia during the Iron Age

Author(s)
Antoni M. Sáez Romero 1 ✉,
Ricardo Belizón Aragón 1,
Pedro A. Albuquerque 1
Publication Date
The transport of food products in amphorae was a basic pillar for the maritime-oriented economies and sustenance supplies of the Phoenician and Punic communities of first millennium BC southern Iberia. Over the last few decades, numerous investigations have been carried out aimed at identifying the manufacturing sites of these amphorae, at defining both their typological and chronological aspects...