Palaeolithic

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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Introduction

One of the heritage resources of prehistoric sites, where prehistory is a diverse and wide-ranging field of study, appears as the triple determination between geography and climate, humans and their type of social organisation. Prehistory has bequeathed us evocative monuments and landscapes from the earliest human occupation, spanning enormous environmental and technological changes, and including several human species. Thus, prehistoric sites have great meaning in both natural and cultural history.

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.