Iron Age

Celtic Copper Alloy Coin Minting Technology: Experiential Approaches

Author(s)
Lawrence Herzman 1,
Monika Townsend 2 ✉,
Publication Date
In this paper, details are presented for three technical approaches that can be employed in the reproduction of Celtic coins from Britain: 1) the use of pellet trays to produce coin blanks of standardised weight; 2) the use of successive iterations of clay moulds to shrink coin design images while retaining clarity; and 3) the use of a low-carbon steel die that was heated to a plastic state and struck with a cast bronze slug to...

Conference Review: 2018 EXAR Tagung in Unteruhldingen (DE)

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1
Publication Date
For the annual Tagung (conference), about 120 people convened in the southernmost point of Germany, at Lake Constance, near the borders of Switzerland and Austria. This conference is the perfect networking event for experimental archaeology in the German spoken part of Europe. Out of the 27 lectures, 25 were presented in German. The strength, but also its weakness, of the conference is that anything goes...

Seminar on Taphonomy

Date
Organised by
Université de Liège (BE)
Country
Belgium

Taphonomy of use-wear traces and residues on stone tools: issues and perspectives

9:00h
Taphonomy and stone tool residues: understanding processes of deposition, removal and decay (in English), by By Dries Cnuts, TraceoLab / Prehistory Liège Université

Open Day - Experimental Archaeology

Date
Organised by
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia (IT)
Country
Italy

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2018, the Asociation. Paleoes - eXperimentalTech ArcheoDrome o organises a day entirely dedicated to experimental archeology, aimed at both adults and children, to explain experimental archaeology, with a view to inclusion and participation.

Experimental Archaeology Course Caspe

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Organised by
Centro De Estudios Comarcales Del Bajo Aragón-Caspe
Institución «Fernando El Católico»
Country
Spain

The 15th Experimental Archeology Course is celebrated this year 2019 between September 13 and 17. The place is the Student Residence "Florencio Repollés", located in C / Sástago s / n, in the Bajoaragonesa town of Caspe (Zaragoza, Spain).