Viking Age

The Mother of All Bead Furnaces: Testing a Hypothesis about a Natural Draft Bead Furnace

Author(s)
Neil Peterson 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/2
As a part of the ongoing exploration of Viking Era glass bead production, the Dark Ages Re-creation Company (DARC) team perform new pilot experiments on a regular basis. These experiments provide a preliminary understanding of a specific construct or research question, allowing us to judge the validity of further experiments, as well as what equipment or additional questions may be necessary as a part of...

UTGARD

Date
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Organised by
Archeoparc Liptovia (SK)
Country
Slovakia

The UTGARD Festival is the largest early medieval festival in Slovakia. About 900 reenactors from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Russia, France, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Ireland and Chile are registering this year. The festival presents life, culture, history and military in the 9th-11th centuries in Great Moravia, Scandinavia, Poland and Kyiv Russia.

Interview: JAPKE – The Female Viking Power-house of Lejre

Author(s)
Christine Sonne-Jensen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/2
Jutta Eberhards has been working with drama and living history for over 30 years. Born in the Friesland district in Germany, Jutta has over the years become a power-house in the management group of Sagnlandet Lejre – The Land of Legends (www.sagnlandet.dk). She has been tirelessly working to uphold the standards of the educational method that she and her colleagues developed...

NESAT XIV FINLAND

NESAT XIV FINLAND
Date
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Organised by
University of Oulu (FI)
Aalto University (FI)
University of Helsinki (FI)
Country
Finland

Due to the uncertain circumstances and evolving travel and gathering restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic the conference will be held only online.

​Conference fee ​

  • 30 € for employed registrants

  • 15 € for students and those working on scholarships

​Attendance awards

Trial By Fire Conference

Date
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Organised by
UCL (UK)
Country
United Kingdom

Free to attend. Fire always leaves its mark and a wealth of information behind. This conference aims to explore these events by bringing together ideas from across archaeological and anthropological sub-disciplines. Registration now extended until 31 March 2019.

Where: UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, Kings Cross, London WC1H 0PY, UK

Two-day tapestry Weaving with Terry the Weaver

Date
Organised by
Irish National Heritage Park (INHP) (IE)
Country
Ireland

In this workshop, learn the art of tapestry weaving. Woven Tapestry is a process of weaving an image into a piece of woven cloth. Master weaver Terry Dunne will teach many of the skills and techniques of making a tapestry from scratch. Work on your own tapestry weaving frame and yarns and colours will build to make your own tapestry.

€150 per participant