(re)construction

Conference Review: Was it all worth it? Archaeological Reconstructions Between Science and Event

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/4
On the 3 February 1990, as the Iron Curtain dropped and the border between Bavaria and Bohemia opened, three archaeologists from both countries met. One year later they managed to get 27 participants together and soon the archaeological working group East Bavaria, West- and South Bohemia (and latter also Upper Austria) was a fact.

Reconstruction

A rebuilding of a destroyed structure based on available evidence to show how the original might have looked. Also: (re)construction

Construction of a Neolithic Longhouse Model in the Museum of Prehistory Urgeschichtemuseum (MAMUZ)

Author(s)
Matthias W. Pacher 1 ✉,
Wolfgang F.A. Lobisser 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/3
The museum of prehistory Urgeschichtemuseum (MAMUZ) in Asparn an der Zaya looks back on a long tradition, starting in the late 1960s, when the province of Lower Austria’s prehistoric collection found a new home at the freshly renovated palace Schloss Asparn. While the palace was being set up as a presentation area for the collection items...

A Gaulish Throwing Stick Discovery in Normandy: Study and Throwing Experimentations

Author(s)
Luc Bordes 1 ✉,
Anthony Lefort 2,
François Blondel 3
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/3
In 2010 archaeological excavations on the pre-Roman site of Urville Nacqueville, Normandy (France) discovered a shaped unknown wooden implement. This boomerang shaped wooden artefact, dated from 120 to 80 BC, has been found in an enclosure trench of a Gaulish village close to a ritual deposit of whalebones...

Two Reconstructions of Prehistoric Houses from Torun (Poland)

Author(s)
Grzegorz Osipowicz 1 ✉,
D. Nowak 1,
Justyna Kuriga 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/1
In 1998 the Society for Experimental Primeval Archaeology (SEPA) was founded at the Institute of Archaeology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Toruń. Since its beginnings, SEPA members have dedicated a great effort to engaging in numerous scientific experiments with the aim to present human lifestyle in prehistoric times in general...

The Iron Age Iberian Experimental Pottery Kiln of Verdú, Catalonia, Spain

Author(s)
Ramon Cardona Colell 1 ✉,
Josep Pou Vallès 1,
Noelia Calduch Cobos 2,
Borja Gil Limón 2,
José Miguel Gallego Cañamero 2,
Laia Castillo Cerezuela 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
The goal of this project is to reconstruct the operational sequence of manufacture of Iberian Iron Age pottery, from clay procurement to firing in a reconstructed kiln. Although pottery is the most characteristic artefact recovered on Iberian Iron Age excavations, most of its complex processes and production techniques remain poorly known...

The Reconstruction of the Danubian Neolithic House and the Scientific Importance of Architectural Studies

Author(s)
Anick Coudart 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/3

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.
***"A topic of research both particularly fertile and constraining because it demands the one never - except provisionally - separates the material from...

Aspects on Realizing House Reconstructions: a Scandinavian Perspective

Author(s)
Ulf Näsman 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/2

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...

Gene Fornby - the Ancient Village of Gene

Author(s)
Carl L. Thunberg 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/1
The archaeological open-air museum Gene Fornby (The Ancient Village of Gene - author’s translation) is an archaeological reconstruction completed in 1991 that is based on the excavation of a nearby ancient settlement dated mainly to the Roman Iron Age and the Migration Period. For many years now, the politicians of the City Council of Örnsköldsvik have been debating on the ‘use’ of...