Newest Era

Museums as Good Places

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David Anderson 1 ✉
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It was a bold and challenging brief. The trustees decided to commission two alternative reports. They invited Patrick Geddes, the pioneering biologist, sociologist, environmentalist, social reformer and city planner, to produce one of these, and T. H. Mawson the other. For Geddes, this was an opportunity to bring together his life's work across many disciplines in one visionary scheme. He spent months, with the assistance of a photographer, recording almost every square yard of the city, before submitting his plan.

A Course in Experiential Archaeology at an Archeopark as a Part of Active University Education

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Veronika Mikešová 1 ✉,
D. Maršálek 1
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As with any other science, archaeology constantly adopts new methods and trends over time. University education in the field can be very helpful advancing sciences in every country. This type of education influences the early stages of future top scientists and forms their future careers. Therefore, education should reflect not only scientific innovations but also innovative educational methods...

Book Review: Management of Open-Air Museums. Workpackage 2: “Improvement of Museum Management” by Jakobsen, B & Burrow, S (eds).

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Paul Edward Montgomery 1 ✉
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The five year OpenArch project concluded in 2015. It was an effort to create a permanent partnership between Archaeological Open-Air Museums (or, AOAMs) in Europe. The project saw eleven participating organisations come together to – among other objectives – produce work packages that would be accessible to people with an interest in the workings of AOAMs...

The Omnis Barbaria Experimental Archaeology Camp for Children – First Edition

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Marius Ardeleanu 1 ✉
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Like in many other European countries, during the past 15 years, Romania has seen an increased interest by archaeologists and history enthusiasts towards the reconstruction of artefacts and certain phenomenal aspects of the past...

Obituary: Steve Watts (25 July 1947 - 21 March 2016)

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Doug Meyer 1 ✉
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I first met Steve in the summer of 1990. I was a student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) following a summer course in anthropology called Southeastern Indians. The course included several field trips, one of which was to the Schiele Museum where we visited the Catawba Village and listened to a presentation by Steve Watts...

High Tech for the Stone Age – iBeacons in Open-Air Museums

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Ulrike Kroll 1,
Rüdiger Kelm 1 ✉
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Over the last few years, a lot of different digital communication technologies for the transfer / transmission of audio-visual informations have been developed, some very sophisticated, some very complicated (and expensive) and in recent times mostly based on applications for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets...

Living History as an Instrument for Historical and Cultural Exchange in German Archaeological Open-Air Museums: an Online Survey Defines Present Status

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Tatjana Meder 1,
Jana Seipelt 1 ✉,
Sabrina Slanitz 1
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In Germany, for several years now it has become increasingly significant as a means of reflecting the cultural exchange of archaeological open-air museums, as well as in scientific discussions and interdisciplinary meetings

V Congreso Internacional de Arqueologia Experimental

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Institut CatalĂ  de Paleocologia Humana i EvoluciĂł Social (IPHES)
Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)
Institut CatalĂ  de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural (ICRPC)

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  • Spain

We are delighted to announce that the Institut Català de Paleocologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC), the Institut Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural (ICRPC) and the EXPERIMENTA Association will organize the V International Congress of Experimental Archaeology in Tarragona on 25, 26 and 27 October 2017.

Book Review: Heritage Tourism Destinations by Maria D Alvarez (et al.)

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Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
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This book is a follow-up from the first Hospitality, Tourism and Heritage International Conference, held in Istanbul, Turkey from the 6th to the-7th November 2014. It is wonderful that these papers were published only two years later. This book’s goal is to cross the bridge between theory and conceptual reflections...

The Best Way of Preserving Something is to Educate about it - Educational Centres in South Africa

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Frauke Sontberg 1 ✉
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This article aims to show the kind of issues South- African archaeologists have, working with public archaeology. A past that was segregated earlier should now be shared, but sharing a common past includes alternative perspectives on history and archaeology, for the archaeologist as well as for the public.