EXARC Journal Issue 2013/3
19 Articles | DOAJ | Open Access
ISSN: 2212-8956
Publishing date: November 15, 2013
📄 EXARC Journal 2013/3 Table of Contents
Copyrights: EXARC, 2013
Summary
We now published the EXARC Journal 2013/3. It contains 19 articles divided over four sections, all articles are open access. It includes 4 articles from the 7th UK EU Conference in Cardiff 2013. The Conference (held in 2013) was hosted jointly by the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University and St Fagan’s Open-Air Museum (UK). The conference consisted of two days of presentations, as well as a poster session at the end of the first day. We call all institutional and individual EXARC members to consider writing for us; you will reach many readers. Besides our members, also all users of EBSCO (mainly an academic public) have access.
Reviewed Articles
Hunting with Cane: Traditional Cherokee Blowguns and Darts
From Wax to Metal: An Experimental Approach to the Chaîne Opératoire of the Bronze Disk from Urdiñeira
***The so-called ‘Treasure of A Urdiñeira‘ (A Gudiña, south-east of the province of Ourense, Spain) consists of an assemblage of three metal artefacts: two gold bracelets and a bronze button or disk, dated from the transition between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age...
Acorn Bread in Iron Age of North-western Iberia, from Gathering to Baking
***Strabo's Geography is one of the main sources that archaeologists use for the study of the Castro Culture’s (Iron Age in north-western Iberia) customs on food and consumption. In his description, he affirms that during two thirds of the year, those mountaineers fed on the acorn...
The Reconstruction of the Danubian Neolithic House and the Scientific Importance of Architectural Studies
1987 ESF Proceedings
The 1980s was the beginning of a boom in the construction of archaeologically inspired buildings inside and outside archaeological open-air museums.
***The purpose of this paper was to explore the scientific basis of building reconstructions. The critical issue was to address the problems of reconstruction in order to specify limits within which the reconstruction is of research/educational value and to a set standards which may act as guidelines.
Copper + Tin + People: Public Co-Smelting Experimentation in Northwestern Iberia
***In the present paper an experiment made in north-western Iberia for producing bronze using local ores and similar techniques to those perhaps practiced by the ancient prehistoric metallurgists during Bronze Age is described...
People Want Quality and They are Willing to Pay for it
Living Conditions and Indoor Air Quality in a Reconstructed Viking House
***During the winter of 2011 and 2012 an archaeological indoor environment experiment was conducted in two reconstructions of the same house from the Viking Age built in Denmark. The purpose of the experiment was to examine the living conditions inside the houses during 15 weeks in wintertime...
