Viking Age

Warrior Training in Sagnlandet Lejre – An Exercise in Community, Camaraderie and Cooperation

Author(s)
Jutta Eberhards 1 ✉,
Søren R. Stadsholt 1,
Peter R. Christensen 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/3
Sagnlandet Lejre is a Knowledge Pedagogical Activity Centre that explores, disseminates and preserves knowledge and trades on traditional historical and prehistoric crafts and living. Since 1964, as the Historical Archaeological Dissemination and Research Centre, Sagnlandet Leire has been a Historical Workshop that makes abstract knowledge concrete, and makes the complex, simple...

Book Review: With One Needle: How to Nålbind by Mervi Pasanen

Author(s)
Emma Boast 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/3
In the modern world currently, there is an interest in and desire to understand ancient craft technologies, along with learning the practical side of these skills. Nålbinding is a craft which has been taught and demonstrated for the last 50 years, mainly within heritage and re-enactment communities. The cultural and social history of this craft has survived as a narrative better in some countries than others...

Book Review: Viking and Iron Age expanded Boats by Ole Crumlin-Pedersen and Hanus Jensen

Author(s)
Robert Holtzman 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/3
Viking and Iron Age expanded boats is the English version of the simultaneously-published Danish edition, Udspændte både fra vikingetid og jernalder. The two editions are identical in layout and are heavily illustrated with colour and black and white photographs, and line drawings from a variety of sources. This review is of the English edition. By “expanded boats”, the authors mean those craft that are more...

EAC12: 12th Experimental Archaeology Conference - World Tour

Date
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Organised by
EXARC
Country
the Netherlands

The #EAC12 Conference will be an “around the world in 80 experiments” taking place in March 2021 (exact dates to be confirmed). It will start in New Zealand & Australia, turning towards Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America as the time proceeds. #EAC12 has online lectures as well as presentations by local hotspots in different time zones.

Theme weekend: Art through the Millennia

Theme weekend: Art through the Millennia
Date
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Organised by
MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya (AT)
Country
Austria

From Cave Painting to Graffiti

What does cave painting have in common with modern graffiti pictures in public spaces? What methods and materials did the ice age artists use? Why were the pictures created then and are they created today? Try to create your own picture with earth colors and the simplest tools!