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Stele èn Aiguille by Anaïs Vinary is the result of her Master Thesis in Prehistoric Archaeology, defended in 2025 at the University of Geneve. But this book is much more than simply the review of a Master’s Thesis. It is the product of combining scientific analysis and creative curiosity. I found it a fascinating book; visually attractive and very inspiring...

The Roman Society (Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies) and the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) jointly hosted this conference. The Roman Society has been organising biennial conferences since 1995. TRAC was planned in 1991 as a one-off event but due to interest it became an annual fixture until joining the RAC in 1995, organised by the Roman Society...

Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***In 2024 EXAR hosted their annual conference from 19th until 22nd September 2024 at the Urgeschichtlichen Museum (URMU) in Blaubeuren (Germany) which was attended, due to available space, by 80 participants. The Jahrbuch 2025 contains as before essays from lectures held at this conference and was presented at the 2025 conference. As usual, the annual report (pp. 247-250) and the author guidelines (pp. 251-253) are at the back of the volume.

“Who cares? Museums, wellbeing and resilience” - Horsens (Denmark), 26-28 October 2025. More than 300 museum and cultural sector professionals from 37 countries all over Europe and beyond gathered over three intense days in Horsens for NEMO European Museum Conference. This year's conference asked a fundamental question: Who cares? Turns out that 327 people do, including EXARC delegates Dr. Roeland Paardekooper, Jannie Marie Christensen, and Vittoria Faga....

LANCE, the Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event, was hosted on 5 February 2026 in the main hall of the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology. The event was intended as a means by which students could discover more about the professional world of archaeology by interacting with several companies, research institutions, and museums...

The Digital Storytelling Festival 2026, organized by Europeana and held online on May 19–20, took place between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (Lisbon time/GMT). It brought together professionals, researchers, and creators connected to digital cultural heritage, with the aim of exploring innovative storytelling practices and the impact of emerging technologies on cultural mediation...

The CIMA 2026 Conference brought together museum professionals, researchers, practitioners, and heritage specialists from across the world for four days of intensive exchange on agricultural and intangible cultural heritage. Hosted in Lorsch, with key venues including the Museumszentrum Lorsch and the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory, the conference was characterized by a warm and collegial atmosphere, encouraging open dialogue and active participation across disciplines and national traditions.

This book is the result of a seminar with the same title, hosted in Sagnlandet Lejre. It contains a repository of articles focussed on hands-on experiments and experiences covering a range of periods from the Neolithic to the modern era. In addition to this some articles address timeless subjects, dealing with more theoretical frameworks and cooperation such as the second article by Lucas Garbrecht Overvad, and high-tech solutions such as the fourth article by Sofie Louise Andersen. A rough summary and commentary are presented below...

The 7th International Congress of Experimental Archaeology was held by the members of the TracéoLab (Liège, Belgium), between 22 and 25 October 2025. The organising committee was composed of Veerle Rots, Dries Cnuts, Justin Coppe and Sonja Tomasso (See Figure 1). This meeting, which takes place every three years, was eagerly awaited by the experimental archaeology community. It fulfilled all expectations and was a great success...

As a craft specialist with little experience in experimental archeology (EA), I found that with the first reading of this volume the editor and article authors gave me a masterclass in not only understanding Lithuania's craft reconstruction, but also how to write EA articles or papers...