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Palaeolithic

El Fonsado 2024: Arrows for Life

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  • Spain

The Fonsado is the annual SIAH meeting where all attendees enjoy a long weekend of archery activities, workshops, conferences and archery fraternity.

The leitmotiv of the Fonsado 2024 organized by the Edetanos Company (Valencian Community) is â€śSagitta Vitae, arrows for life”.

New Year in the Stone Age Park

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  • Germany

We don't know whether and how the people of the Stone Age in the Albersdorf area and elsewhere in Schleswig-Holstein celebrated the turn of the year. New Year's Day is a good date to explore the topics of the calendar and the turn of the year while taking walks through the Stone Age park and the Stone Age village.

Strategy of Presenting Prehistoric Sites Like an Open-air Stand. Why and How and from a Sustainable Development Perspective

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Mona Abo Azan 1 ✉
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Archaeological excavations have revealed important sites from the prehistoric sites, with the cultural achievements of the early lithic tools of hunters-gatherers in the Palaeolithic, to the emergence of the farmer-village societies in the Neolithic, reaching on to urbanisation and the complex societies of the Chalcolithic...

How were Half-Moons on Shells Made in the Upper Palaeolithic? An Experimental Approach

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Annamaria Daniele 1 ✉
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In the Upper Palaeolithic levels of the site of Grotta Continenza (Abruzzo, Italy), numerous shells shaped as half-moons have been found. These artifacts, being important examples of ancient ornaments, have been regularly subjects of study, but the production process has only been hypothesised...

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Jahrbuch 2022

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Stefanie Ulrich 1 ✉
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Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***The periodical is published by Gunter Schöbel and the European Association for the Advancement of Archaeology by Experiment e. V. (Europäische Vereinigung zur Förderung der Experimentellen Archäologie) in collaboration with the Pfahlbaummuseum Unterhuldingen...

Experimental Approaches in Material Culture: Stone Tool Knapping Workshop

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  • India

Two day workshop where you get to learn about the introduction to prehistoric archaeology where you will gain a perspective on past climate, human evolution and Palaeolithic culture, technology and sites.

Join this workshop to enjoy hands-on activities to learn stone tool knapping with group activities and more.

The workshop is open for all interdisciplinary participants.

Casting a Copper Age Axe Using a Replica of the Marl Mould Found in Baffoni Cave (AN)

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Mauro Fiorentini 1 ✉
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These three artefacts suggested that some kind of metal working had most probably been carried out in the cave: Radmilli first described the mould as “a clay mould for casting… containing a piece of copper” (Radmilli, 1956, pp.