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Late Middle Ages

Traces of Manufacture, Use, Repair and Modification Observed on Ethnographic Throwing Sticks and Boomerangs

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Luc Bordes 1 ✉
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Throwing sticks and boomerangs are present in the collections of many French and international museums. Collected mainly in the 19th and 20th centuries by travelers, they were mainly analyzed from a stylistic point of view, to relate them to their region of origin. Some of these objects were made by the indigenous populations especially to be exchanged with Europeans and only bear macro-traces of manufacture...

The Past Has a Future! 2021

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Organised by
Department of Archaeology University of Warsaw

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  • Poland

We would like to invite you to participate in the 2nd Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology ‘PrzeszÅ‚ość ma przyszÅ‚ość!/ The Past Has a Future!’, which will take place, in a hybrid format at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (Poland) and online on March 22-26th, 2021

Book Review: Craft Beer Culture and Modern Medievalism: Brewing Dissent by Noëlle Phillips

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Susan Verberg 1 ✉
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In Craft Beer Culture and Modern Medievalism: Brewing Dissent, Noëlle Phillips takes a critical look at the people and legends of craft beer and the ways in which medievalism and masculinity have shaped the industry of craft beer brewing. Craft beer may seem to be a rather flippant choice for an analytical scholarly study, but it is a movement deeply infused with modern assumptions...

La Nuit Antique

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  • Switzerland

La Nuit Antique is a free general public event taking place in Geneva, dedicated to the transmission of Antiquity through interactive activities and live shows.

#FinallyFriday: Building Engagement

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Organised by
EXARC

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  • the Netherlands

Open-air museums are always looking for ways to engage the public. What is the best way to offer visitors a glimpse into the past? How can open-air museums be used to address issues of interpretation and social responsibility in the modern world? Zsolt Sári and Luke Winter join us for December’s #FinallyFriday to discuss their different approaches to these questions.

Pottery Chat

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Organised by
EXARC

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  • the Netherlands


Following the Potter’s Wheel Conference in November, we will have a potter’s chat open to anybody. Discussion is open about any pottery related subject, wheel throwing, clays, ethnography, but also pottery trade, using ceramics, breakage and their archaeology.