Iron Age

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2014

Author(s)
Christian Horn 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/3
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***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...

A Gaulish Throwing Stick Discovery in Normandy: Study and Throwing Experimentations

Author(s)
Luc Bordes 1 ✉,
Anthony Lefort 2,
François Blondel 3
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/3
In 2010 archaeological excavations on the pre-Roman site of Urville Nacqueville, Normandy (France) discovered a shaped unknown wooden implement. This boomerang shaped wooden artefact, dated from 120 to 80 BC, has been found in an enclosure trench of a Gaulish village close to a ritual deposit of whalebones...

The Creation of an Experimental Camp of Protohistory at the Iberian Settlement of Estinclells (Verdú, Urgell, Catalonia)

Author(s)
Jordi Morer De Llorens 1,
Ramon Cardona Colell 2 ✉,
Conxita Ferrer Alvarez 2,
Cristina Garcia Dalmau 2,
Josep Pou Vallès 3,
David Asensio I Vilaró 1,
Oriol Saula I Briansó 4,
Natàlia Alonso Martínez 3
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/3
The idea to create the Experimental Camp of Protohistory (CEP) emerged in late 2009. It was set up in a field adjacent to the Iberian Culture settlement of Estinclells (Verdú, Urgell), an archaeological site with only one phase of occupation that offers an exceptional portrait of life in the third century BC...

Archeoparco Didattico della Fortezza di Radicofani (IT)

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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.

Making Wine like Iberians: a Learning Experience with the International Workcamp at La Ciutadella Ibèrica of Calafell

Author(s)
Manel Gómez Gutiérrez 1 ✉
Josep Pou Vallès1,
O. Saura 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/2

The international workcamp in Calafell

The workcamps in Calafell are coordinated by the Fundació Pere Tarrés, a non-profit organisation of social action devoted to the promotion of leisure education and volunteering among other objectives, and the municipality of Calafell is one of the organisations that support these workcamps. So far La Ciutadella Ibèrica has held three of these projects (2010, 2012 and 2013) with international volunteers being the core theme of the activity.

Museum Theatre in Greece: Perspectives in Site Interpretation

Author(s)
Foteini Venieri 1,2,3 ✉,
Niki Nikonanou 4
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/2

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).

Conference Review: 9th Experimental Archaeology Conference, Dublin 2015

Author(s)
Katy Whitaker 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/2
EAC Conferences
***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...

Putting on a Show - The How and Why of Historical Shows and Theatre in a Historical Setting or Theme-park

Author(s)
Jaap Hogendoorn 1 ✉,
Erik Collinson 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/1
As long as people have walked the earth, stories have been told; from stories around the campfire told by older people to entertain and educate the young, to 15th century knights dressing up as Romans during themed tournaments. Telling a story is putting on a little show; a show is a great way to tell a story... Including Spartacus in Archeon by Erik Collinson