EXARC Journal

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2

DOAJ
Issue 2012-2
EXARC Journal

19 Articles | DOAJ | Open Access
ISSN: 2212-8956
Publishing date: May 15, 2012
📄 EXARC Journal 2012/2 Table of Contents
Copyrights: EXARC, 2012

Summary

The second issue of the online EXARC Journal is out now. It contains 13 articles under ‘mixed matters’, including book and conference reviews, an interview and an extensive discussion on reconstruction in situ. The other two categories, on archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology, are peer-reviewed and contain another six more lengthy articles on for example Iron Age horse bridles and the history of archaeological open-air museums in the Netherlands.

Later this year we will publish a third online EXARC Journal and the EXARC Journal Digest, a hard copy journal with an abridged version of a selection of this year’s online articles. Happy reading!

 

Reviewed Articles

The Use of Metal Moulds to Cast Lead Weights onto the Wooden Shaft of a Plumbata

Author(s)
David Sim 1 ✉
Publication Date
Plumbata - Plural plumbatae. a projectile weapon used during the latter part of the Roman period – a fletched dart. They usually consisted of a barbed iron head with a lead weight fitted to a fletched wooden shaft. Plumbatae have been found on several sites in Britain and abroad and written evidence for their existence has been reported in the fourth century by Vegitius...

Public Outreach in the Drents Museum in Assen (NL)

Author(s)
Blue van der Zwan-Deen 1 ✉
Publication Date
Part of my job as museum teacher at the Drents Museum in Assen is attending to the all the groups that visit our museum. This includes the great number of children, both elementary school and high school students, that visit our museum. A lot of children think of a museum as a boring place where there is nothing to do but look at old paintings...

International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum

Author(s)
Susanne Wiermann 1 ✉
Publication Date
Many archaeological open-air museums and museums with indoor reconstructions choose to interpret history using the method of ‘living history’, or re-enactments. If one only counts the German references, there is wide variety of terms used by museums when they talk of ‘living history’...

Archaeological Open-Air Museums in the Netherlands, a Bit of History

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
This article is a result of my interest in, and experience with, archaeological open-air museums. With the start of HOME Eindhoven in 1982, I became actively involved in these museums and I was one of the people involved from the first moment in EXARC. From 2005 onward, I have been conducting postgraduate research at the University of Exeter into archaeological open-air museums...

Probable Measure Estimating Tool Employed by the Aeneolithic Potters

Author(s)
Eva Lamina 1 ✉
Publication Date
The article proposes that an item, ornamented with a geometric pattern with inscribed diagonal cross and attributed to the Afanasievo culture (Aeneolithic, South Siberia), represents a primitive tool reflecting practical knowledge of basic geometry by the ancient potters. The article suggests an experimental reconstruction method for crafting the proposed instrument, and...