Viking Age

Scandinavian Arrowheads of the Viking Age, Their Manufacture and Distribution

Author(s)
Hector Cole 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/2
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the arrowheads used in the Viking Age and their distribution. The 187 excavation of Viking graves in the Black Earth of Birka region of Sweden, re-examined in 2019 by Price (Price, et al., 2019) and the finding of arrows and arrowheads where glaciers have melted in Norway, prompted my research into the forging techniques of specific arrowheads from these...

Archaeometallurgy in Europe 2024

Archaeometallurgy in Europe 2024
Date
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Organised by
Historical Metallurgy Group at Jernkontoret
Country
Sweden

The International Conference Archaeometallurgy in Europe has been organized every four years since 2003, in Milan (2003), Grado-Aquileia (2007), Bochum (2011), Madrid (2015) and Miskolc (2019). These conferences represent the most important forum for scientific discussion on early metalworking in Europe and other related regions of the Old World.

Dyes in History and Archaeology

Dyes in History and Archaeology
Date
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Organised by
University of Copenhagen
National Museum of Denmark
Centre for Textile Research (CTR)
Danish School of Conservation
Country
Denmark

Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA) is an annual international conference that focuses on the academic discussion of dyes and organic pigments used in the past.

Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice
Date
Organised by
Vitlycke Museum (SE)
Country
Sweden

Since ancient times, man has worshiped the sun and followed its journey from early spring to late summer. The summer solstice celebrates fertility, love and the return of summer. Welcome to Vitlycke museum on June 21 for an evening of tribute to the sun.

Historical and Cultural Reserve "Ancient Plisnesk" (UA)

Member of EXARC
Yes

The historical and cultural reserve "Ancient Plisnesk" is located in the west of Ukraine, with an area of 450 hectares, which takes care of four medieval archeological monuments and an architectural monument of national importance. Among them are a unique Slavic cult center of the late 7th –  10th centuries, a huge Slavic city of the 9th – 10th centuries, a city of the 12th – 13th centuries, a necropolis with burial mounds of the Varangian soldiers of the Kyiv prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavovych and their descendants of the 11th – beginning of the 12th century and the Pidhoretsky monastery with a baroque church and cells of the 18th century.

The name "Plisnesko" comes from the word "pleso" - standing water.

The first excavations in Plisnesk were carried out as early as 1810, and systematic stationary archaeological research began in 1990 and continues annually to this day. A separate field of work of specialists is experimental archeology.