Neolithic

Can Sadurni Horitzo 30 (ES)

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The Cave of Can Sadurnì is one of the most exciting sites of European prehistory. Excavations have been carried out for over thirty years. Now, with the crisis, they encounter difficulties. The Archaeological Open-Air Museum project is intended to support and provide interpretation for this amazing site.

The project for the Archaeological Open-Air Museum was launched through National Geographic to promote excavations in the extraordinary site of the cave of Can Sadurní.

Stonehenge Visitor Centre (UK)

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No

In the recently opened Stonehenge Visitor Centre, which provides permanent and temporary exhibition about one of the most striking World Heritage sites, five neolithic houses were (re)constructed.

The new Stonehenge Vistor Centre displays five neolithic houses, giving an overview of how life could have been at the time of the monument's building.

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2012

Author(s)
Thijs Hofland 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***According to James Mathieu in 2002, experimental archaeology is “A subfield of archaeological research which employs a number of different methods, techniques, analyses and approaches within the context of a controllable imitative experiment to replicate past phenomena...

An Experimental Comparison of Impressions Made from Replicated Neolithic Linen and Bronze Age Woolen Textiles on Pottery

Author(s)
Lewis Ferrero 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
Textile impressions on pottery provide evidence for fabrics and weaves in areas where the fabrics themselves do not survive. This article argues that the impressions can provide information on the uses of different fibres, the weaving technologies and possible trading or agricultural advances connected with these fibres...

Book Review: Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation by Anthony Jackson & Jenny Kidd (eds)

Author(s)
Kirsty Sullivan 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
This useful text brings together recent thinking about museum theatre and the performance of heritage, offering a range of international case studies to its readers as evidence of the discipline’s usefulness in interpreting the past for visitors...

Conference Review: OpenArch, The Value and Scale of the Experimental Archaeology Approach, Kierikki Stone Age Centre (FI), June 2014

Author(s)
Leena Lehtinen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
The VII OpenArch Conference took place from 11 to 15 June 2014 at Kierikki Stone Age Centre, 50 kilometres northeast of Oulu in Northern Finland. The conference was jointly organised by Kierikki and the University of Exeter, which are in charge of Working Package 5, “Dialogue with Science”...

Neolithic Hut Piadena (IT)

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No

In 1985 the Italian Institute for Experimental Archaeology attempted a (re)construction of an early neolithic hut to test some archaeological features.

In 1985 a Neolithic Hut was (re)constructed in Piadena to test the negative archaeological features from excavations.