Newest Era
Authenticity is Fiction? Relicts, Narration and Hermeneutics
Bodil Petersson PhD
Bodil Petersson, archaeologist, PhD with special focus on archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology (book 2003) and editor together with Lars Erik Narmo of a research anthology on the theme of experimental archaeology (2011).
Conference Review: Didarchtik’s Final Workshop at Butser
By mid-2012, the Learning Partnership Didarchtik had come to an end with a last workshop at Butser Ancient Farm in the UK. Many subjects we had touched on over the previous two years were back on the table...
To Be or Not to Be: Thoughts on Living History - Some Personal Remarks
Results of a Discussion on the State of Experimental Archaeology in Switzerland
Historical Techniques: Cold Gilding
***An historal technique of goldplating, described in 18th century literature, was reproduced. This cold-plating technique uses salts of gold, produced by dissolving gold in aqua regia. these salts are then rubbed onto a silver surfaces...
A Field Trip to the Ukraine, April 2010
Did people know they were people or did they still think they were monkeys (NL)?
Many peoples modestly called and still call themselves ‘people’, like the Ainu in Japan or the Inuit of the Polar Circle as do many others. Prehistoric groups of people like the Neanderthal may have had the same habit...
I saw visitors throw coins into a few of the wooden canoes in the museum. Why (DE)?
This question rather requires answering by ethnologists. From archaeological view, this phenomenon can easiest be explained as the popular adaptation of earlier ‘”water cults”. From prehistory, we know numerous sacrifices...