Late Middle Ages

Interview: Scientific Tools Applied within Archaeology and Historical Re-enactment: Dr Gábor Szollosy on the Implementation of Experimental Archaeology in Hungary

Author(s)
Márta Pócza 1
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How do you personally approach the concept of experimental archaeology?

Experimental archaeology - in my opinion - has the main and only aim to find answers to questions where classical archaeological methods fail to find them.

From the Minutes of “Universities & Experimental Archaeology” Roundtable Discussion 7th May 2014

Author(s)
HollyMae Steane Price 1 ✉,
Roeland Paardekooper 2
Publication Date
EXARC, Experimenta and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid invited several universities to a round table meeting in Madrid, in May 2014. EXARC's aim was to bring colleagues into one room to share their experiences in handling experimental archaeology from an academic perspective...

Event Review: Food Workshop in Archeon at the OpenArch conference 2013

Author(s)
Rüdiger Kelm 1
Publication Date
OpenArch Dialogue with Skills Issue
***Food and drink are basic needs for every human being. From the perspective of our modern culinary practices, with all its specialities and customs, the traditional cuisines, and especially the pre- and protohistoric dishes, seem not only very far away, but also very primitive and have a negative connotation...

Mittelalterhaus Nienover (DE)

Member of EXARC
No

In the Northeim Regency, Nienover represents an important historical site with the remnants of an entire medieval town extensively investigated and carefully excavated in some areas.

In the Northeim Regency, Nienover represents an important historical site with a full re-construction of a medieval house.

Arche Warder (DE)

Member of EXARC
No

In the middle of Schleswig-Holstein the Arche Warder is the largest animal park in Europe for rare and endangered domestic animals. It is located in the middle of Schleswig-Holstein between the lakes of Wardersee and Brahmsee.

Within the largest animal park in Europe for rare and endangered domestic animals,the past comes to life also in the re-constructed prehistoric village.

Katharina Detreköy

Member of EXARC since
Country
Switzerland
Crafts & Skills

The point of my interest is Northeast Greenlandic archaeology: Independence, Saqqaq (a settlement in Western Greenland), Dorset culture (a Paleo-Inuit culture, lasting from 500 BC to between 1000 and 1500 AD).

From the Soil to the Iron Product - the Technology of Medieval Iron Smelting

Author(s)
Adam Thiele 1
Publication Date
2013 EXARC meeting at Csiki Pihenökert (HU)
***Nowadays, the development of technology rushes past the people of the machine-based technical civilisation, therefore they fail to understand the technological wonders that surround them. One of these is the ancient technology of iron smelting...

Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) and Reenactment - Concept, Problems, Approaches in Our Experience

Author(s)
Gábor Fábián 1
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There are several reasons why this is so. First of all, re-enactment itself started with the recreation of battles; the tradition goes back all the way to the Roman Empire (for example the naumachia scene during the opening of the Flavian Amphitheatre)

Book Review: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences by L. Shillito, E. Fairnell and H. S. Williams (eds)

Author(s)
Katy Whitaker 1
Publication Date
A set of eleven articles resulting from the call for papers for the Sixth UK Experimental Archaeology Conference (held in York in January 2012) is now published in a special issue of the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences...