Unreviewed Mixed Matters Articles

Book Review: Investigations into the Dyeing Industry in Pompeii by H. Hopkins Pepper

Author(s)
Mante van den Heuvel 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/3
I was honoured to be asked to write a review on H. Hopkins Pepper´s “Investigations into the Dyeing Industry in Pompeii” as well as a bit nervous… Who am I, a non-scholar to write a review on a PhD. Then I realised that there might not be that many people who read this kind of literature for fun and on a regular basis. I still feel a bit like an imposter, but here is my view on the Hopkins´ book.

Event Review: 40 years of cooperation between the University of Vienna and MAMUZ

Author(s)
Franz Pieler 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/3
The University of Vienna “Practice of Experimental Archaeology” course took place from June 30th to July 3rd at MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya. Under the guidance of their tutors, numerous students worked on the implementation of theoretical experiments that they had previously prepared and designed...

Virtual Reality – 1 Project - 13 Museums

Author(s)
Ulrike Braun 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/3
Visitors in 13 museums in the rural area around the city of Lüneburg (Lower Saxonia, Germany) can now discover different aspects of the interrelationship between man and nature within a virtual world. Six themes or titles guide through to whole story, like nature means threat, or nature means work or beauty, etc. symbolised by a silhouette.

Conference Review: The Historical Metallurgy Society’s Second Accidental and Experimental Conference, June 2022

Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/3

The Second Accidental and Experimental Conference was held on 10-12 June 2022 after multiple delays due to the pandemic. This year it was held at the Ancient Technology Centre in Cranbourne, East Dorset, England. The event was organised by Vanessa Castagnino on behalf of the Historical Metallurgy Society (https://historicalmetallurgy.org/).

Book Review: MI-60. Studies in Experimental Archaeometallurgy: Methodological Approaches from Non-Ferrous Metallurgies by Georges Verly et al (eds)

Author(s)
Terry Runner 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/3
Issue 60 of Monographies Instrumentum, titled Studies in Experimental Archaeometallurgy, methodological Approaches from Non-ferrous Metallurgies, exhibits 10 papers presented at the first International Conference on Non-Ferrous Metal Metallurgy and Experimental Archaeology – Metallurgie des non-ferreux et archeologie experimentale ICA I. The conference was held at the Museum of Art and History...

Conference Review: Experimental archaeology: how does it work? by EAS, 28-28 April, 2022 in Solothurn (CH)

Author(s)
Alex R. Furger 1,
Claus Detreköy 2 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/2
With public involvement and accompanied by great media interest, the first Swiss National Congress on Experimental Archaeology took place in Solothurn. For two days, more than 120 participants took part in professional exchange and the interdisciplinary assessment of the state of the art. The general consensus was recognition that experimental archaeology is an important sub-discipline of archaeology and ...

Book Review: Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers by Nigel Mills (ed)

Author(s)
Jan Hochbruck 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/2
“Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers”, BAR Publishing - BAR International Series contains 14 papers presented originally at the Limes Congress in Serbia in 2018. The Limes made the headlines on a variety of occasions in recent years, being the most ambitious UNESCO World Heritage project in Europe. Not all of these headlines were positive...

Conference Review: ”Green Museum Summit“ organised by MuseumNext

Author(s)
Julia Heeb 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/2
An Inspiring Conference on how Museums can get the Ball Roling to Save the Earth. ​​​​​​​A virtual format was a fitting setting for an international conference including the adjective “green” in the title as no flights were necessary to get together for the three days from the 28th to the 30th of March 2022...

Living history on Dutch TV at last – the making of 'Het verhaal van Nederland'

Author(s)
Jaap Hogendoorn 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/2

The project is called Het verhaal van Nederland (The story of the Netherlands), HVVNL for short. Its core is a series of ten TV episodes as well as ten pod-walks at different locations in the Netherlands. This is complemented by an online series for kids called Het verhaal van Nederland Histories, a series of podcasts about remarkable characters from Dutch history, a book, and an ...