public archaeology

Conference Review: EXARC at the European Archaeology Days Forum in Paris 2023

Author(s)
Ligeri Papagiannaki
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/1
On January 20, the INRAP, overall coordinator of the European Archaeology Days (EAD), invited the national coordinators as well as several partners of the event at the UNESCO in Paris for a day of get-together and discussions. 19 countries were represented during the Forum, with the participation of 26 national coordinators. Lygeri Papagiannaki represented EXARC...

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

Author(s)
Jaap Hogendoorn
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 ...

Interview: Pascal Ratier, Coordinator of the European Archaeology Days

Author(s)
Ligeri Papagiannaki
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2021/2
Europe is celebrating Archaeology, everybody is invited! Mr Pascal Ratier, who is in charge of events and colloquia for the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), is the coordinator of the European Archaeology Days. Since his arrival at the INRAP in 2014, he has been organizing the event, at first at a national level and, since 2019, at the European scale...

Experimental Archaeology in the Scottish Highlands

Author(s)
Susan Kruse
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/1
Over the past year, Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH) has been running a series of experimental archaeology workshops in the Scottish Highlands. ARCH is a non-profit educational charity, providing learning opportunities inside and out for all ages, always with an eye on the legacy of the event. Our experimental archaeology project was a good example of this approach...

Copper + Tin + People: Public Co-Smelting Experimentation in Northwestern Iberia

Author(s)
Aaron Lackinger
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/3
7th UK EA Conference Cardiff 2013
***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...

Book Review: Förestallningar om det Förflutna by Bodil Petersson. Imaginations of the Past, Archaeology and Reconstruction

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/3
The book is written about the Scandinavian situation and for a Scandinavian public, as it is in Swedish. Although not in English and almost ten years old, it is definitely worth a read...

Book Review: The Archaeology of Time Travel by Anders Ödman (ed)

Author(s)
Tine Schenck
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/1

At the European Association of Archaeologists' meeting in Malta, September 2008, a session was held on the topic of Archaeology as Time Travel, dedicated to exploring the popular phenomenon of time travel to past times, including a variety of aspects related to materiality/virtuality, the market of time travel experiences, design issues and how time travel should be evaluated as an experience...