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EXARC members will soon be receiving their 2024 edition of the EXARC Journal Digest, which was already announced in a previous news item with more information here. The physical Digest includes articles taken from the EXARC Journal, which is online and available for everyone. Here at EXARC, we strongly believe that research publication should be affordable for authors, and openly accessible for readers. For that reasons, we have no costs for publication, and all of our issues are freely available open-access on our journal website.

We have now opened the second call for papers for our 2025 experimental archaeology conference, hosted by the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil. While there are still many details to be finalised with the conferece organisation, you can find current information including registration fees, location, and dates on the official web page here: https://exarc.net/meetings/eac14 (Please note - as we will be launching a new EXARC website soon, this page may relocate.

The short film The Bison's Legs directed by EXARC member Maarten Peels is now available for EXARC members to watch online. The film is set in the Late Palaeolithic and was inspired by the art from Chauvet cave and the flutes from Hohle Fels. It tells the story of a shaman and his friend on a dream quest to make a new drawing of a bison. It was produced independently thanks to a crowdfunding and premiered in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities).