Mesolithic

Time travel. Hunters, gatherers and farmers

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Country
Poland

"Time travel" is our new series with three events, each focused on a different archaeological era. "Hunters, gatherers and farmers" is the time travel to the Stone Age. During this journey you will see how prehistoric hunter-gatherers obtained food and why they lived in temporary shelters.

Paths of archaeology. Science - Culture - Pop culture

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Country
Poland

Are you interested in the scientific research and achievements of archaeology? Are you a schoolmate and don’t you know what to choose to study in the future? Are you a teacher or a parent and do you want to inspire children with the scientific knowledge?

Session Experimental Archaeology in the Balkans: Summa Summarum

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Organised by
Serbian Archaeological Society (RS)
EXARC
Country
Serbia

Until recently, in the Balkans, experimental archaeology was not considered as something that could contribute to science. For decades, this useful and fruitful branch of archaeology represents a genuine scientific discipline in a number of western and central European countries, as well as in Russia.

Archaeological Spring in Biskupin

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Poland

We will open the new tourist season with a bang! We invite you for a picnic to Biskupin. "Archaeological spring" is an event during which our park wakes up after the winter and teems with new spring life. Exhibitors and workshops will be waiting for visitors, including flintstone, prehistoric and early medieval weaving, pottery, and making decorations worn by the inhabitants of

Event Review: EXARC at the Times and Epochs Festival, Moscow, Russia

Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1
Publication Date
In August 2018, members of EXARC participated in Moscow’s Times and Epochs Festival for the third year . The annual festival is held on park boulevards that surround the inner city, providing an ideal green space for reenactors to recreate various periods of Russia’s history. The main sites were located in Tverskaya Square, Nikitsky, Passion and Tver Boulevards, on Kamergersky Lane and Profsoyuznaya Street...

The Construction of a Skin-on-Frame Coracle at Kierikki Stone Age Centre

Author(s)
Peter Groom 1 ✉,
India McDermott 1,
Evon Kirby 1
Publication Date
In July 2018 a group of students from the UK participating in the Placements in Environmental, Archaeological and Traditional Skills (PEATS) Erasmus + Work Placement, attended the Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Pahkalantie, Finland. During the week previous to this experiment, the same group of students had built a skin-on-frame canoe, so the decision was taken to build an alternative lightweight craft...

The Construction of a Skin-on-Frame Canoe at Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Finland, as a Medium for Group Training in Ancient Skills and Experiential Learning

Author(s)
Peter Groom 1 ✉,
Patrick Sweeney 1,
James Findlay 1
Publication Date
In July 2018 a group of students from the UK participating in the Placements in Environmental, Archaeological and Traditional Skills (PEATS) Erasmus + Work Placement, attended the Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Pahkalantie, Finland. Part of that training included experimental / experiential projects that were coordinated by Dr. Peter Groom of the Mesolithic Resource Group...

Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (ES)

Member of EXARC
Yes

Though only  less more  than 50 years old, the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) has already consolidated itself amongst the 200 best universities in the world within the main university rankings and is located within the top 10 new universities with greatest international projection and prestige.

Though only  less more  than 50 years old, the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) has already consolidated itself amongst the 200 best universities in the world within the main university rankings and is located within the top 10 new universities with greatest international projection and prestige...

Archeopark dell’Etna (IT)

Member of EXARC
No

The Archeopark Etna is the first real-life prehistoric interactive village reconstructed in Sicily on the basis of archaeological documentation obtained in Sicily, in particular Etna, and experimentations in the field of lithic, textile, ceramic and agricultural crafts. A dynamic educational park, open to the public and schools, aiming to demonstrate the millenarian bond of people with the territory by means of an experiential path.

In a hut daily activities are reproduced: spinning, weaving, milling of cereals, wining of vegetable fibers, working of clay, decorative painting by crushing natural pigments, processing of animal bones and wood to make ornaments and tools of various kinds; a large sampling of vases faithfully reproduced according to ancient methods is shown.