Newest Era

Indian Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions and Attitudes to Archaeological Content in History Textbooks

Author(s)
Seema Shukla Ojha 1,2 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4

Introduction

It is well accepted that using real evidence/primary sources is an important criterion in the teaching and learning of history. The focus in classrooms in many parts of the world has already moved to using both primary and secondary sources instead of solely using school textbooks, which has made the teaching and learning of history much more useful, joyful, and productive. Archaeological remains form one of the most important of primary sources.

Conference Review: Biannual Conference of the Association of European Open Air Museums (AEOM), Poland, August 2019

Author(s)
Peter Inker 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4
This year’s Association of European Open Air Museums (AEOM) Biannual Conference 2019 took place at multiple sites in Poland, over four days in late August. Its two key themes were ‘How Open Air Museums represent different cultural identities’, and ‘Representing the past - technical solutions for reconstruction and archaeological interpretation’. I was invited to participate in order to...

Universitat de Barcelona (ES)

Member of EXARC
No

Since 1995 the Grup de Recerca d’Arqueologia Medieval i Post-medieval (GRAMP-UB) is an in-terdisciplinary team lead by University of Barcelona, formed by members of different national and international institutions.

Its target is to study the medieval and post medieval archaeological re-mains. The new Degree in Archaeology offers to the students the possibility to collaborate in the excavation campaigns in medieval sites, and also some practices in Experimental Archaeology: for instance, they can do some experimental training at the AREA in l’Esquerda, Roda de Ter, an Open-Air Laboratory dedicated to experimental works.

IMTAL Training Day - Death in the Country

Date
Organised by
IMTAL-Europe
Country
Germany

Nowadays, death is pretty much excluded from daily life. Until only a few generations ago, however, death and dying as a natural process were highly visible throughout society, and ever-present at every stage of people’s biography: Young mothers could die in childbirth, out of a large flock of siblings, only some would grow up to be adults. Life expectancy was generally lower than it is today.

University of Wollongong (AU)

Member of EXARC
No

As archaeologists, we study the culture and lifeways of ancient people. However, because culture does not preserve, archaeologists have to reconstruct past behaviours from material remains. To do this, archaeologists conduct experiments to evaluate the range of activities that may have taken place in the past.

These experiments can range from the making and using of Palaeolithic stone tools to reconstructing prehistoric houses, transporting megalithic structures, and ocean voyaging. By replicating these ancient activities, researchers can generate and test ideas about the technology and knowledge of past people. 

Coastal Carolina University (US)

Member of EXARC
No

Coastal Carolina University offers baccalaureate degrees in 73 major fields of study. Among CCU's graduate-level programs are 25 master's degrees, two educational specialist degrees, and two doctoral programs. The University comprises 115 main buildings on 621 acres, including the Coastal Science Center and the Burroughs & Chapin Center for Marine and Wetland Studies.

Archaeology at CCU

The Department of Anthropology and Geography at Coastal Carolina University brings together diverse faculty to study the intersections between cultural and physical worlds. We work in archaeology, Geographic Information Systems, geography, cultural anthropology, museums, and environmental science. Our research takes us into the field, in the South Carolina Lowcountry and worldwide, where we examine lives, lifeways, and environments of the past and present.

Conference Review: The Museum World’s Convention in Kyoto

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4
ICOM is the international council of museums with over 40,000 members. Every three years, ICOM organises a large convention for museum professional; this year the 25th ICOM general conference was held in Kyoto, Japan. It was the largest conference ICOM ever organised, with 4,500 delegates...

Conference Review: Fibres in Early Textiles, Glasgow 2019

Author(s)
Alistair Dickey 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4

The scientific programme included twenty-four papers divided across six sessions over a two-day programme, with opportunity at the end of each session to ask questions to the presenters. Another seven poster presentations were accessible during the session breaks throughout the programme, as well as a number of practical demonstrations giving participants the opportunity to get hands-on with different fibres and techniques.