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Book Review: Heritage Tourism Destinations by Maria D Alvarez (et al.)

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/4
This book is a follow-up from the first Hospitality, Tourism and Heritage International Conference, held in Istanbul, Turkey from the 6th to the-7th November 2014. It is wonderful that these papers were published only two years later. This book’s goal is to cross the bridge between theory and conceptual reflections...

Book Review: The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making: The Development of Craft Traditions and Clothing in Central Europe by Karina Grömer

Author(s)
Raylene McCalman 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/4
Textile research has made significant advances in recent years as new technologies and methods are developed, tested, and applied to the analyses of archaeological textiles. The FWF-Project1, a collaborative research effort involving researchers and artists from institutions in Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany, engaged in ...

Book Review: Zurück zu unserem Cheruskerhof! by Sylvia Crumbach

Author(s)
Martijn Eickhoff 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/2
Experimental archaeology in its various manifestations is a transnational historical practice that, for almost one and a half centuries, has managed to fascinate both academic practitioners and laypeople. Although it has many ideological connections – ranging from anti-modernism, nationalism, the life-reform movement, racism, National Socialism...

Book Review: Egyptology in the Present: Experiential and Experimental Methods in Archaeology by C. Graves-Brown (Ed)

Author(s)
Stephanie J. Harris 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/2
The eye-catching and colourful cover illustration of the Egyptian creator-God Ptah, fully-equipped with modern toolkit, promises an informative journey into experiential and experimental archaeology in Egyptology...

Book Review: Archaeology and Crafts edited by Rüdiger Kelm

Author(s)
Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee 1 ✉,
Doug Meyer 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/2
The book “Archaeology and Crafts” is a transcript of the proceedings of the VI OpenArch-Conference held in Albersdorf, Germany, on the 23-27 September 2013. The conference was an activity of the OpenArch project –a cooperation of Archaeological Open-Air Museums across Europe of which the AOZA...

Book Review: Recent Publications: Experimental Archaeology in the November 2015 Issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal (Volume 25, Issue 4)

Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/1
In the last quarter of the 1900s, John Coles (1979) and Peter Reynolds (1999) introduced the subject of experimental archaeology, which has gained significant momentumin the past few years. The discipline has become essential for reconstructing past technologies, in addition to supporting archaeological theory.

Book Review: Geschichtstheater. Formen der "Living History" by Wolfgang Hochbruck

Author(s)
Ibrahim Karabed 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/1

National interest in re-production of history started when the Ethnological Commission of Westphalia called together with Freilichtmuseum Cloppenburg, one of the oldest German open-air museums, a conference on the topic of “Living history in the Museum” in 2007 in Cloppenburg, Niedersachsen. Subsequent conferences made it clear that - apart from predictable doubts about the reliability and quality of the reconstructions of historical life-worlds and events - there was a significant dissonance regarding terminologies.

Book Review: From Rome to Las Vegas. Reconstructions of Ancient Roman Architecture by Anita Rieche

Author(s)
Wulf Hein 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/1
For more than 200 years ancient buildings have been reconstructed. Reasons for the reconstruction of Roman architecture in particular are many. People enjoy being surrounded by fully realised reconstructions of ancient ruins where they can be taught in a manner reflecting a museum-like academic rigour...

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2014

Author(s)
Christian Horn 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/3
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***Volume number 13 of the periodical Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa. Bilanz contains 215 pages with 18 different articles on a wide variety of subjects. The contributions are presented in four sections: Experiment and Test, Reconstruction Archaeology, Theory and Emanation’, and Short reports...