EXARC Journal Issue 2015/4
17 Articles | DOAJ | Open Access
ISSN: 2212-8956
Publishing date: November 30, 2015
📄 EXARC Journal 2015/4 Table of Contents
Copyrights: EXARC, 2015
Summary
The fourth online issue of the 2015 EXARC Journal contains 17 articles divided over two sections. 15 articles are OpenArch related and Mixed Matters. It includes one article from the special OpenArch Crafts Issue and seven from Digest Special OpenArch Issue. With this issue we also finished publishing the special proceedings about The Dialogue with Skills in the OpenArch Project. In this issue you can also find two articles on making museums and heritage sites more accessible for people with disabilities.
Reviewed Articles
Needlework the Pazyryk Way?
My work has been inspired by some of the most remarkable textile finds - those in the Pazyryk kurgans (burial mounds) - specifically the felt shabraks (horse blankets). The detailed, intricate designs of these items are achieved by appliquéing felt on felt (sometimes leather is used) in a manner that adds both decoration and strength (See Figure 1) and is still used among the steppe-land nomads (Barber 1991, 220).
Experiments on Possible Stone Age Glue Types
Access to Cultural Heritage Sites for All
Experience with Building Mesolithic Huts in the Stone Age Park Dithmarschen in 2014
***Two new huts in the Stone Age Park Dithmarschen in Albersdorf (Germany) were built in spring 2014 by the Experimental Archaeologist and Educator Werner Pfeifer with the support of some friends and with financial support from the Stone Age Park Dihmarschen and the EU co-financed project OpenArch.
From Celtic Village to Iron Age Farmstead: Lessons Learnt from Twenty Years of Building, Maintaining and Presenting Iron Age Roundhouses at St Fagans National History Museum
***This article summarises the main issues that were faced in running a group of reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses as an educational and visitor resource at St Fagans National History Museum from 1992 until 2013. Plans to build a new Iron Age farmstead at St Fagans are then outlined along with the steps...
Tangible and Intangible Knowledge: the Unique Contribution of Archaeological Open-Air Museums
***Over the years my personal research interests have focussed on the less tangible elements of the past, such as gender issues, perishable material culture, and the sensory worlds of the past, but all of these have been underpinned by a longstanding appreciation of the role experimental archaeology can play as...
Montale, the Terramara Lives
***Ten years ago, the results of investigations from one of the most important protohistoric settlements of the Po Plain in Italy lead to the construction of a large archaeological park. A project which, today, represents a core reality in the dissemination of experimentations...
