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Book Review: Architectures of Fire: Processes, Space and Agency in Pyrotechnologies edited by Dragos Gheoghiu

Author(s)
Gregg Griffin 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/1
This book is a collection of six papers from the 2015 Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists session with the same title, co-organised by Dragoş Gheoghiu and Derek Pitman. The contributors to this work are a global team of thirteen archaeology researchers and experimental archaeologists who have studied different aspects of the use of fire and its influence on...

Conference Review: Exploring Heritage, Museums Mediating Archaeology

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/1
Our colleagues in Xanten invited us for a conference on the use of digital media in museums. Eleven speakers from Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Austria captivated an audience of about 75 participants. Many of the presented ideas were delivered by larger museums, some of them in the phase of execution...

IMTAL Training Weekend: "It’s about Time!"

Date
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Organised by
IMTAL Europe
Country
United Kingdom

At historical sites and in the presence of historical objects, the only dimension which separates us from the the stories and the people connected with them is the 4th Dimension, Time. Live interpretation is arguably the best way of bridging that dimensional distance. We talk about ‘Bringing the Past To Life’ or ‘Going back in Time’. Visitors often cite ‘time travel’ as a motive for visiting.

Art in the Serra: Project of Heritage Experiences in the Territory of the Serra Da Capivara National Park (BR)

Author(s)
Jorlan da Silva Oliveira 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/1
In 2013 a team of researchers in collaboration with the community in the municipality of Coronel José Dias, around Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí-Brazil, created the Olho D 'Água Institute and since then has been developing research and didactic experiments with the communities. The project entitled Arte na Serra aims to engage communities...

CONEXP 2025

CONEXP 2025
Date
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Organised by
Various
Country
Belgium

TraceoLab is excited to announce that the 7th CONEXP is coming to Liège from October 22-25, 2025! This congress is dedicated to all aspects of experimental archaeology, encompassing all periods, materials, and research questions. Save the date, and more information will follow soon!

Event Review: NEMO Learning Exchange in Budapest (HU)

Author(s)
Pascale Barnes 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/1
The purpose of this Learning Exchange was to discover more about the Hungarian museum landscape, with examples of successful programmes engaging in social responsibility in Hungary. The host and organiser Zsolt Sari, Deputy Director General of the Hungarian Open Air Museum (Skanzen), was joined by colleagues from the Ludwig Museum, the Petofi Literary Museum, and the Herman Otto Museum...

Working with Artisans; The ‘It Depends’ Dilemma

Author(s)
Christina Petty 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4
We live in a world where scientific method is both the expected and accepted path to knowledge. With any scientific method, experiments based on detailed, well-documented, well-considered theories, and precise set-ups must be replicated exactly by others who come to the same conclusion to consider the information gleaned from them to be valid. This has become the accepted practice for most...

Replication of a Maori Ethnographic Textile Hem Border Pattern

Author(s)
Lisa McKendry 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4
11th EAC Trento 2019
***Replication of archaeological and ethnographic Māori textiles, under the direction of customary knowledge and previous practical experience, can provide a more nuanced understanding of the manufacture of taonga (treasures) made from fibre materials. A case study is presented here from the unique perspective of a weaver who...

Event Review: “I Experiment so I Participate” Italian Experimental Archaeology Festival: Experience in Didactics and Scientific Dissemination

Author(s)
Massimo Massussi 1 ✉,
Sonia Tucci 1,
A. Sciancalepore 1,
R. Laurito 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4
11th EAC Trento 2019
***Participation in archaeology is the basic “inclusive process” of a human community, which allows it to identify its cultural values. Experimental archaeology with its rediscovery of gestures and techniques allows re-appropriation, a sense of belonging and ...

Everybody Else is doing It, so Why Can’t We? Low-tech and High-tech Approaches in Archaeological Open-Air Museums

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4
Some people believe that an open-air museum is a place where you leave your modern technique behind and go ‘low tech’. Other than the museums which act like digital free zones, many others experiment with going digital. Where experience and storytelling have always been the central concepts of archaeological open-air museums, exactly these ideas are behind many digital techniques. We have to...