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Conference: Living Heritage & Sustainable Tourism

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Organised by
UNESCO Chair in ICT (CH)
consultancy Elgin & Co. (NL)

Country

  • Switzerland

The Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality 4th International Conference will again bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the leading question: How to succeed in attracting tourists while simultaneously engaging all stakeholders in contributing to the preservation of natural and cultural heritage?

Conference Review: 11th Experimental Archaeology Conference - EAC11, Trento 2019

Author(s)
Caroline Jeffra 1,
Jilian Garvey 2
Publication Date
EAC Conferences
***The 11th Experimental Archaeology Conference was this year held in Trento, Italy, organized by EXARC and the University of Trento. Over 190 participants gathered together hailing from more than 25 countries, and for the first time the conference ran parallel sessions. The conference spanned three days...

Conference Review: Archaeological Open-Air Museums: Reconstruction and Reenactment – Reality or Fiction?

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Alessia Pelillo 1
Publication Date
An amazing golden Autumn day greeted us on our first visit to Trzcinica, South Eastern Poland, where last October Terramara Park representatives had been invited to the conference “Archaeological Open-Air Museums: Reconstruction and Reenactment – Reality or Fiction?”. It was an honour to have be selected by the Polish colleagues of the Carpathian Troy Archaeological Open-air museum, and ...

How to Communicate an Event to the Media

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Martine Sarfati 1
Publication Date
In 2018 a very important event took place in Russia that had worldwide impact: the Football World Cup. I'm French and we won! But aside from patriotism, the craze for this extremely popular sport can be largely attributed to the media. Without them, such an event could not have achieved such a magnitude of success. The World Cup has been explored by the media from all angles: fashion, science...

REARC 2019

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Organised by
EXARC
REARC

Country

  • USA

This year the REARC meetings are scheduled for October 25th and 26th in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia. We are excited to announce that the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington will host Friday presentations.

X-Ray Tomography and Infrared Spectrometry for the Analysis of Throwing Sticks & Boomerangs

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Luc Bordes 1
Publication Date

In 2009, confronted to the study of throwing sticks collections from several museums and private collections (including more than three hundreds artefacts) and the need to evaluate their aerodynamic and functions, I developed a throwing stick classification and a methodology to measure their characteristics (Bordes, 2014). This approach is complementary to the gathering of ethnographic or archaeological contextual data to confirm or invalidate hypotheses about theirs functions. 

Experimental Bonfirings of Pottery with Camel Dung Fuel, Jordan, July 2018

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Maria-Louise Sidoroff 1
Publication Date
The objective of this series of experimental pottery firings with camel dung fuel was to isolate the function of this fuel type within the context of a simple mode of pottery firing for data applicable to studies of ancient pottery manufacture...

Popularisation of Experimental Archaeology in the Activity of Harjis - Project under the Patronage of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Lodz (PL)

Author(s)
Katarzyna Badowska 1,2 ✉,
Wojciech Rutkowski 1,2
Publication Date
2018 EXARC in Kernave
***This article outlines our experiences gained during the implementation of activities at the Society of Experimental Archeology Harjis. Our society aims to recreate dress, weaponry and the realities of the Przeworsk culture, that is, people living in the first centuries of Common Era in the territory of present-day Poland...

Experience and Discovery: Engaging the Public in Research. A Survey on Experimental Archaeology Contemporary Practice and Meaning – Preliminary Results

Author(s)
Lara Comis 1
Publication Date
2018 EXARC in Kernave
***The traditional way of engaging the public with the past has changed: now, through experimental archaeology, we can have a direct, physical contact with the “past”. But, as researchers know, the means used to engage the public are the fruits of an active process of investigation, especially in experimental archaeology. Could it be possible to enable visitors to actively engage in the questioning of the past, to let them experience the discovery process?