Roman Era
Varus and the Lost Legions in Sagnlandet Lejre - A Re-enactment Success?
In July 2009 a battle took place in Sagnlandet Lejre, in the heart of Zealand in Denmark. The battle was a dramatized re-enactment of the historical battle of Teutoburg forest in Niedersachsen in the year 9 AD - also known as the Varus Battle. Why should such a re-enactment event take place in Denmark - over 100 kilometres from the presumed site of the historic battle?...
Conference Review: Reconstruction âin Situâ, International Archaeological Meeting of Calafell, 2011
March 2011, EXARC convened for the 17th time, this time in Calafell, Catalonia, Spain. We could go along with the 6th international archaeology meeting of Calafell, a biannual conference. Three days long, from 9:30h in the morning until 19:30h in the evening, we listened to about...
Conference Review: International Ăguf-Symposium 2010
Prehistory and Early History (ĂGUF) took place 27-30 October at The Museum for Natural History in Vienna under the patronage of State Captain and Mayor of Vienna Dr. Michael HĂ€upl â and the general director of the Museum for Natural History Vienna, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Köberl. Theme was experimental archaeology: theory, practice, science, education...
Conference Review: EXAR in Berlin, October 8-10, 2010
This yearâs EXARC Conference took place at the Freie UniversitĂ€t in Berlin and was themed Experimental Archaeology and University...
Conference Review: European Textile Forum 2010
The Textilforum was founded to bring practitioners of all textile crafts together, to compare notes and to learn from each other. Following the success of the first Textilforum, held in Eindhoven in September 2009, this yearâs was held in Schnalstal, in South Tyrol, the German-speaking part of Northern Italy from 6-12 September...
Conference Review: Accidental and Experimental Archaeometallurgy
The Historical Metallurgy Societyâs Annual Conference, 2-3 September 2010
The Historical Metallurgy Society was established in the early 1970s and is dedicated to providing a forum for the exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of research on the metallurgical practices of the past...
Book Review: Experimentelle ArchÀologie. Eine Gratwanderung zwischen Wissenschaft und Kommerz by Dirk Vorlauf
***The name Dirk Vorlauf is closely connected to the history of experimental archaeology in Germany. From the late1980s, the Vorlauf has conducted several experiments testing archaeological hypotheses, and he is critically involved in methodology and theory...
Book Review: Experimentelle ArchÀologie in Europa, Bilanz 2010
***Twenty years of Bilanz of experimental archaeology â under this phrase the ninth volume in this series covers a series of articles which deal in different ways with questions in this range...
Book Review: Sailing into the Past: Learning from Replica Ships by Jenny Bennett (ed)
There must be hundreds of wooden ship replicas across the world, not only the âViking shipsâ in Scandinavia, but â as the book Sailing into the past shows, there are many medieval and more recent ones...
Whatâs in an Experiment? Roman Fish Sauce: an Experiment in Archaeology
In the summer of 2009 I was engaged in the preliminary preparations for extensive experiments to manufacture fish sauces for my MA dissertation in Archaeology at Reading University. In my previous research into Roman food, it was clear that it was not going to be possible to truly understand ancient cuisine without...