Mesolithic

From Gastonia to Gotha: My Thoughts and Impressions on doing Museum Work

Author(s)
Doug Meyer 1
Publication Date
What I consider my first real museum work came from a message on my phone on January 9th from Ann Tippitt, the Director of the Schiele Museum in Gastonia, North Carolina. Ann asked if I was interested in outfitting a Catawba Indian mannequin for the exhibit. Ann wanted a complete set of clothes, weapons and gear...

Conference Review: Reconstructive & Experimental Archaeology Conference REARC 2018

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Susan Verberg 1
Publication Date
REARC Conferences
***The 8th annual Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference hosted by EXARC drew speakers and participants from many parts of the world. The REARC conference was once again hosted by Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, from October 18-20th. Friday was reserved for the presentation of papers...

Conference Review: 2018 EXAR Tagung in Unteruhldingen (DE)

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1
Publication Date
For the annual Tagung (conference), about 120 people convened in the southernmost point of Germany, at Lake Constance, near the borders of Switzerland and Austria. This conference is the perfect networking event for experimental archaeology in the German spoken part of Europe. Out of the 27 lectures, 25 were presented in German. The strength, but also its weakness, of the conference is that anything goes...

Seminar on Taphonomy

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Organised by
Université de Liège (BE)
Country
Belgium

Taphonomy of use-wear traces and residues on stone tools: issues and perspectives

9:00h
Taphonomy and stone tool residues: understanding processes of deposition, removal and decay (in English), by By Dries Cnuts, TraceoLab / Prehistory Liège Université

Open Day - Experimental Archaeology

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Organised by
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia (IT)
Country
Italy

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2018, the Asociation. Paleoes - eXperimentalTech ArcheoDrome o organises a day entirely dedicated to experimental archeology, aimed at both adults and children, to explain experimental archaeology, with a view to inclusion and participation.