Iron Age

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2012

Author(s)
Thijs Hofland 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***According to James Mathieu in 2002, experimental archaeology is “A subfield of archaeological research which employs a number of different methods, techniques, analyses and approaches within the context of a controllable imitative experiment to replicate past phenomena...

The Iron Age Iberian Experimental Pottery Kiln of Verdú, Catalonia, Spain

Author(s)
Ramon Cardona Colell 1 ✉,
Josep Pou Vallès 1,
Noelia Calduch Cobos 2,
Borja Gil Limón 2,
José Miguel Gallego Cañamero 2,
Laia Castillo Cerezuela 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
The goal of this project is to reconstruct the operational sequence of manufacture of Iberian Iron Age pottery, from clay procurement to firing in a reconstructed kiln. Although pottery is the most characteristic artefact recovered on Iberian Iron Age excavations, most of its complex processes and production techniques remain poorly known...

Book Review: Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation by Anthony Jackson & Jenny Kidd (eds)

Author(s)
Kirsty Sullivan 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
This useful text brings together recent thinking about museum theatre and the performance of heritage, offering a range of international case studies to its readers as evidence of the discipline’s usefulness in interpreting the past for visitors...

Ways of Structuring and Organizing an Archaeological Open-Air Museum

Author(s)
Clara Imeyer 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
In February 2014 Clara Imeyer, student of International Tourism Management at the Hochschule Bremen, Germany, completed her Bachelor thesis with the title Ways of Structuring and Organizing an Archaeological Open-Air Museum – Analysis of the Iron Age House Venne...

Citania de Briteiros (PT)

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The fortified site was occupied probably from the Bronze Age, but the most extensive settlement was used from the second century BC to the first centuries AD. Later on, in the early Middle Ages, a little church was built in the acropolis.

The fortified site was occupied probably from the Bronze Age, but the most extensive settlement was used from the second century BC to the first centuries AD. Later on, in the early Middle Ages, a little church was built in the acropolis.

Interview: the Association of Historical Studies Koryvantes

Author(s)
Márta Pócza 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
“The Koryvantes Association was founded in 2009 by people with a background in the study of ancient Greek warfare who were not satisfied by the level of reconstructions undertaken so far in Greece and internationally and who wished to ultimately adopt a framework based on experimental archaeological methodology...