Palaeolithic

Arké Associazione Culturale (IT)

ARKE Experimental Archaeology is a cultural association that operates in Italy in the field of the enhancement, promotion and dissemination of the historical-archaeological heritage. Our primary objective is to facilitate the approach to the cultural heritage through the direct involvement of the users: we propose scale and real reconstructions, living history activities and practical laboratories that simulate craft activities. Each of our operations is preceded by the analysis of available scientific data.

The association was founded in 2004 by members who share an interest in archaeology and practice it at a professional and amateur level. We are technicians, graduates and specialized in archaeology with many years of experience in the field of study, research, promotion and promotion. We have collaborations on a national scale with universities, schools, museums, public and private institutions that have involved us for educational activities, exhibitions, museum displays and reproductions.

CONEXP 6

Date
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Organised by
Association EXPERIMENTA
EXARC
UMR 7194 - HNHP
UMR 7091 ArScAn, équipe ANTET
INRAP
Country
France

The 6th International Congress of Experimental Archaeology will be held  in Pézenas (Hérault, France).

Please find attached the new call and calendar.

Flint knapping workshop

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Country
United Kingdom

Discover how our ancestors made tools out of stones in the ground with flint knapper and author Bob Turner. Learn to understand flint as a material and how to knap and work it to make ancient tools. Discover the talents and skills of ancient Britons and go home with a flint tool you have made yourself!

Conference: Trial by Fire 2020

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Country
United Kingdom

An interdisciplinary conference on the transformative power of fire.

Fire always leaves its mark and a wealth of information behind. Our aim is to bring together research on experimental archaeology, archaeomaterials, archaeobotany, anthracology, pyrotechnology, taphonomic investigations including burned bone, combustion features, or accidental burning. 

Basalt Handaxes: Preliminarily Testing the Lithic Translation Strategy Hypothesis and Comparisons with the Fontana Ranuccio Site Bifacial Tools

Author(s)
Giorgio Chelidonio 1
Publication Date
11th EAC Trento 2019
***The oldest bifacial “handaxes” known so far belong to the “Kokiselei 4” site, dated to 1.76 Ma (West Turkana, Kenya; Texier, 2018). They have been manufactured by direct lithic percussion on magmatic effusive stone materials. Considering that the evolution of “fully operational intelligence” (Wynn, 1979) has been associated with the so-called...

International Camp of Experimental Archaeology

Date
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Organised by
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (PL)
Society for Experimental Prehistoric Archaeology (SEPA)
Country
Poland

We invite everyone interested in experimental archaeology to participate in a two-week International Camp of Experimental Archaeology, connected with a seminar presenting the state of art of this method in Poland and accompanying use-wear workshops.

2019 Australian Archaeology Association Conference: Disrupting Paradise

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Organised by
Australian Archaeology Association (AU)
Country
Australia

AAA Session

Exploring the Zooarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Record in Australia through Space and Time

Convenors: Ms Fiona Hook, PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia
Dr Carly Monks, Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
Dr Jillian Garvey, ARC DECRA Fellow, La Trobe University

Universität Hamburg (DE)

Member of EXARC
No

Since the 1990s, experimental archaeology has been anchored in teaching and scientific research in pre- and early-historical archaeology at the University of Hamburg, and has been applied in different ways and considered in individual theses with a clear archaeological experimental contribution.

By 2004, the Experimental Archaeology with its own seminar and adjoin practice part is an integral part of the curriculum of Prehistoric and Early Archaeology. In addition to the introduction to the history, theories and methods of experimental archaeology, the seminar offers students the opportunity to develop their own projects with archaeological-experimental questions. The supervision of the students takes place on the whole by two experimental archaeologists and is supplemented by further experts for certain questions.