Late Middle Ages

A Knight’s Day

Date
Organised by
GEMAC

Country

  • Portugal

The activity consists of training the small warriors as knights fit for small combats with the parents. They will be able to know the equipment’s and techniques of combats as well as to be able to try out real equipment used by fighters.
The afternoon will be filled with theoretical and practical components, equipment of soft materials will be used for the youngest.

V Congreso Internacional de Arqueologia Experimental

Date
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Organised by
Institut Català de Paleocologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES)
Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)
Institut Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural (ICRPC)

Country

  • Spain

We are delighted to announce that the Institut Català de Paleocologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC), the Institut Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural (ICRPC) and the EXPERIMENTA Association will organize the V International Congress of Experimental Archaeology in Tarragona on 25, 26 and 27 October 2017.

Conference Review: EAA Vilnius – about Archaeological Tourism, Visualisation, Experiment and Reconstruction

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
The European Association of Archaeologists held its annual conference of 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania. About 1,500 participants attended a programme, with a similar number of papers, in over 100 sessions. About a dozen EXARC members attended; what follows here is a review of three sessions...

Cooking in Baskets Using Hot Rocks

Author(s)
Jonathan Thornton 1 ✉
Publication Date
Baskets are among the most ancient of human artefacts. Everyone is familiar with their most common functions as containers for transport and storage. When told that baskets have also served as cooking vessels, most people will be unable to conceive of how this is possible, yet this was a primary function of baskets for many cultures of the past, and some until the present...

Huns Party

Date
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Country

  • Austria

There will be horse riding
It is going to be wild
It is going to be Huns-like

The stories about Attila and his horse-warriors are legendary. However, were they really that brutal and greedy as history tells us? The Urgeschichtemuseum MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya, not far from Vienna, shows all their aspects at the Huns Party on 27 and 28 August...

A Broken Leg in the Year 1350: Treatment and Prognosis

Author(s)
Wiel van der Mark 1 ✉
Publication Date
It is the year 1350 in Gravendam (the medieval town of the archaeological open-air museum, (AOAM) Archeon, in the Netherlands). Master Roelof, a wood-and-bone processor, lies unconscious on the stone floor. Shortly before this, he had been climbing the ladder to the attic to grab a log of wood, but it slipped from under him and he ended on the floor...

Spiral Tube Decorations: a Thousand Years of Tradition

Author(s)
Riina Rammo 1 ✉,
Jaana Ratas 2
Publication Date
An overview of finds, their regional spread and significance though the ages. The spiral tubes are made of an alloy that consists of copper supplemented mainly with zinc and/or tin (Rammo, Ratas 2015, table 1). The outer diameter of the spiral tubes usually range from 2.5 to 5 mm. Woollen and linen threads as well as horse hairs, were used to join spiral tubes into decorations...

Conference Review: European Textile Forum 2015

Author(s)
Heather Hopkins 1 ✉
Publication Date
The European Textile Forum (Textilforum) was held between the 2nd and 9th November 2015, at the Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology (LEA) in Mayen, Germany. LEA kindly hosted the European Textile Forum as part of their inaugural event in 2012 and since then the Director Michael Herdick has invited the conference to return annually...

Glow of iron

Date
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Organised by
Stara Fužina, Bohinj, Slovenia

Country

  • Slovenia

The International Iron Working Festival – Iron Smelting Days 2016 will occur in Stara Fužina, the village near the Lake Bohinj. The owner of the castle was the Zois family that had the whole iron facilities in Bohinj and other places from the years 1740 – 1869. The program of Iron Working Festival will show practical smelting the bloom to billet or bar, using domestic ore, charcoal and clay.