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Discussion on Experimental versus Experiential Archaeology

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Issue 2015/1
Mixed Matters
This is an extract from a lengthy and lively Facebook discussion in the Experimental Archaeology group, illustrating the main points as it took place between 16 August 2014 and 22 August 2014. The full discussion can be found at: www.facebook.com/groups/experimentalarchaeology

In memory of Otto Harsema (NL)

Jaap Beuker (NL)
Issue 2014/1
Mixed Matters
On the 8th of September 2013 Drs. Otto Harm Harsema died from a bad fall during his stay in Poitiers (FR). Otto, born 11 September 1939 in Uithuizermeeden (NL), studied Social Geography and Prehistory at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen...

Aspects on Realizing House Reconstructions: a Scandinavian Perspective

Ulf Näsman (DK)
Issue 2013/2
Experimental Archaeology

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.
***Experiments are an integrated part of archaeological research, a tool used to analyse and understand archaeological phenomena. It is a method as legitimate and as problematic as so many others...

EXAR Tagung Brugg 2012

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
Issue 2013/1
Mixed Matters

In early October 2012, EXAR held its yearly conference in Brugg, Switzerland. EXAR is the European Association for experimental archaeology and has over 150 members. Their highlight is their annual conference and the proceedings, which usually appear 12 months later, which is very fast...

Authenticity is Fiction? Relicts, Narration and Hermeneutics

Jörg van Norden (DE)
Issue 2012/3
Interpretation
In many ways, authenticity is everybody’s darling: the historian searches for authentic, historic texts in order to write down history objectively; the readers, naturally, appreciate an authentic description of the past; and museum visitors want to see authentic originals, not replicas...

Book Review: Experimental Archaeology – Between Enlightenment and Experience by Petersson and Narmo

Jodi Reeves Flores (UK)
Issue 2012/3
Mixed Matters
This book developed from the project Experimental Archaeology – Between Enlightenment and Experience, which was composed of a series of regional meetings held in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. This hardbound publication contains quality illustrations and colour photographs; and the language revision has been done to a solid quality...

Discussion on archaeological reconstruction in situ

For the authors see the article
Issue 2012/2
Mixed Matters

Archaeological reconstruction in situ has been a hot item over the years. Spring 2011, a conference was devoted to this, in Calafell, Catalonia. Is interpreting a site’s past only possible at that site itself? Is a site better off without reconstruction and interpretation because it only damages...

The experiment and the umbrella - 10 years of experimental archaeology

Marianne Bloch Hansen (DK)
Issue 2012/1
Experimental Archaeology

There seems to be two main discussions: one is of the term experimental archaeology as an overall title covering several activities, and the other, a discussion of the definition of the experiment by categories and terminology...

Interview: Sensing History with Hans-Ole Hansen

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
EuroREA 3/2006
Mixed Matters

An interview with Hans-Ole Hansen, founding father of the Lejre Research Centre (DK), historical workshops and inspirer to many.
"In Lejre, we worked 30 years with education and experiment. There is always an exchange between education and research."...

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