Iron Age

Ancient Shipping and Shipbuilding

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Organised by
Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
NGO "Historical Reconstruction Club "Ostvytsia", Rivne
State historical and cultural reserve of the city of Ostrog
Association of Veterans of the Military and Naval Forces of Ukraine
EXARC
With the assistance of the Kyiv Military Historical Society, Central Military Historical Museum. and Rivne city administration.

Country

  • Ukraine

We invite you to the International scientific and practical seminar entitled "Ancient shipping and shipbuilding: issues of research, reconstruction and the possibility of use for the development of tourism".
Location: Historical Reconstruction Park "Ostvytsia", Ukraine Rivne, Marusi Churai Street, 33017.

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Session on Experimental Archaeology at SAA Meeting

Session on Experimental Archaeology at SAA Meeting
Date
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Organised by
Society for American Archaeology

Country

  • USA

Experimental archaeology has become a burgeoning field within that has answered significant questions about human experience driven by the same curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity that allowed our ancestors to thrive. It has also captured the public imagination and provides thousands with a tangible link to a multitude of imagined pasts.

Drawing Wire

Author(s)
Henriette Lyngstrøm 1 ✉
Publication Date
Very few experiments have been conducted on drawing wires of iron made from bog ore. One of them, however, was carried out at the forge at Lejre Land of Legends in Denmark. The iron used for the experiments was obtained from three different sites in Denmark where well-documented experiments in the extraction of bog iron ore took place...

Experimenting with the Ancient Greek Pottery Production Process from Clay Selection to Firing in a (Re)constructed Updraft Kiln

Author(s)
Francesca Tomei 1 ✉,
Juan Ignacio Jimenez Rivero 2
Publication Date
This article presents an experimental archaeology project that aimed to reproduce the Hellenistic Greek pottery production process. The project's main research questions were focused on understanding how locally available raw materials and climatic conditions influenced the production process and how the process created social networks with the local community...

Lughnasadh - Ancient Celtic Harvest Celebration

Lughnasadh - Ancient Celtic Harvest Celebration
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Country

  • United Kingdom

Join us to celebrate the ancient Celtic Festival of Lammas, Lughnasa or Lughnasadh, a celebration of the summer and the gathering of the first harvest. Lammas is a Saxon word meaning ‘Loaf-mass’, and Lughnasadh (pronounced Loo-nas-ah) is Irish Gaelic. At Lammas, fires were lit to honour the corn mother as she gives birth to her harvest child, the grain, who will sustain life over the winter.

The Celts of Vivisco

The Celts of Vivisco
Date
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Organised by
Viviskes

Country

  • Switzerland

The fourth edition of Les Celtiques de Vivisco will take place on 8, 9 and 10 September 2023 at the Crédeiles site in Vevey, Switzerland.

Friday will be dedicated to school visits, during which pupils will discover antiquity through a series of stations.