Newest Era

Steel Bangers Festival

Blacksmithing Festival
Date
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Organised by
Irish National Heritage Park (INHP) (IE)
Country
Ireland

Experience heat and iron as the forges of fire at The Irish National Heritage Park are fired up for the inaugural Steel Bangers Festival on September 14th and 15th. Our resident Blacksmith will bring his crew of metal workers and steel artists to the Medieval Lodge in the heart of the Park and they will stoke the forges and tell the story of iron and steel and the pivotal role it played in

Conference Review: Summa Summarum - Experimental Archaeology in the Balkans

Author(s)
Ivan Semyan
Spyros Bakas
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/3
From May 30 to June 1, the 42nd conference of the Serbian Archeological Society was held in Negotin (Serbia). The session "Summa summarum - experimental archaeology in the Balkans" was co-organised with EXARC. About 130 experts from Germany, the USA, Poland, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Russia and other countries took part in the event...

Book Review: The Living History Anthology, Perspectives from ALHFAM by Martha B. Katz-Hyman et al. (eds)

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/3
Many open-air museums in the United States are members of the Association of Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM). Only a small portion of the ALHFAM members are agricultural museums, however living history in a museum context is what unites the members...

NSF Crabtree Field School

Date
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Organised by
Idaho State University (US)
Country
USA

This conference is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Donald Crabtree’s 1969 NSF funded archaeology field school. This field school influenced a new generation of archaeology scholars, who in turn have influenced others in the field.

Conference: Living Heritage & Sustainable Tourism

Date
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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
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/3
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?

Author(s)
Alessia Pelillo 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/3
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

Author(s)
Martine Sarfati 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/3
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...

Historiecenter Dybbøl Banke (DK)

Member of EXARC
Yes

We are in the dramatic year 1864. The Battle on the 18th of April was the most bloody in Denmark in the Newer Era, the last big battle on Danish soil. Denmark is at war with the large powers of Europe: Prussia and Austria.

We are in the dramatic year 1864. The Battle on the 18th of April was the most bloody in Denmark in the Newer Era, the last big battle on Danish soil. Denmark is at war with the large powers of Europe: Prussia and Austria...