Palaeolithic

The International Reenactment Market IRM is the first international fair for living history, re-enactment, and experimental archaeology of all periods in Germany, and was launched in 2011 in the Archaeological Park Roman Villa Borg. The new location for 2022 is the Römerwelt museum at Rheinbrohl, located between Bonn and Koblenz.

The walk starts at 8:00 pm. and lasts until approx. 10:30 pm.

What do experts read from prehistoric animal images about the relationship between humans and animals? This is revealed by museum director Ulrich Eberli on a public evening tour of the special exhibition.

The Northern Palaeolithic and Evolutionary Anthropology (NOPE) Network will be running a free virtual conference in April 2022, celebrating the exciting ongoing research in Palaeolithic archaeology and Palaeoanthropology at northern Universities in the UK and beyond!

EXARC invites you to a session during the ICOM General Conference in Prague. We are in a unique position where our teaching of the past offers our visitors lessons for the future; we are more relevant than ever. How to develop the strength of open-air museums by building partnerships with other organisations?

The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology is proud to announce that the 3rd Experimental Archaeology Student Symposium, will be hosted by the University of Liverpool in June 2022 in partnership with EXARC.

Session at EAA2022

Experimental archaeology in its broadest sense is instrumental to our current understanding of technology, structures, and lifeways of hunter-gatherer humans throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene.

Lecture on the most groundbreaking results in DNA research
by Eveline Altena – PhD LUMC – Ancient DNA Specialist/ archaeologist

DNA research on archaeological human remains has impacted archaeology quite a bit in recent years, so much so that it has been cited as part of the third scientific revolution in archaeology that is currently taking place.