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Book Review: Experimental Archaeology: Reconstruction of Material Heritage of Lithuania, Volume I by Daiva Luchtaniene (ed)

Author(s)
Mante van den Heuvel 1 ✉
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4

I am honoured to write a review of the book Eksperimentinė archeologija, Lietuvos materialaus paveldo rekonstrukcija, I tomas or Experimental archaeology, Reconstruction of Material Heritage of Lithuania, volume I; compiled by Daiva Luchtanienė. I have to admit that I know very little about Lithuania and their experimental archaeology and I was looking forward to learning more...

Event Review: Bronze Casting in Daugailiai, Lithuania

Bronze Casting in Daugailiai, Lithuania
Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4
On 13 July 2024 the village of Daugailiai celebrated the 770th year of its founding on with a festival that included demonstrations and experiments in bronze casting. Daugailiai is a village in Utena County in Northeast Lithuania. The village features a hillfort, which is dated to 1st millennium BC-beginning of 1st Millenium AD, upon which a castle was built in 1254 and...

Book Review: "The dream of The Old Town – Memories and reflections from a lifetime as museum director by Thomas Bloch Ravn" by Helle Ingerslev Kristensen

Book Review: "The dream of The Old Town – Memories and reflections from a lifetime as museum director by Thomas Bloch Ravn" by Helle Ingerslev Kristensen
Author(s)
Helle Ingerslev Kristensen 1 ✉
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4
After 28 years in the director's chair, Bloch Ravn tells vividly and in detail about the many years of work in running and developing the museum Den Gamle By (or in English: The Old Town) towards becoming the great flagship for culture and tourism in East Jutland, Denmark...

Conference Review: EXARC at the EAA, Belfast, September 2023

Conference Review: EXARC at the EAA, Belfast, September 2023
Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3

The purpose of the session was to bring together researchers working in different fields who engage in experimental archaeology as part of their work. Its aim was to fuse experimental and experiential archaeology with reconstructing past narratives. The session was well-attended, and not only because of the bespoke EXARC biscuits! The papers were divided into the categories of organic materials, pyrotechnic processes, and educational and cultural significance.

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Jahrbuch 2023

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Jahrbuch 2023
Author(s)
Svenja Fabian 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***The periodical is published by Gunter Schöbel and the European Association for the Advancement of Archaeology by Experiment e. V. (Europäische Vereinigung zur Förderung der Experimentellen Archäologie) in collaboration with the Pfahlbaummuseum Unterhuldingen...

Book Review: Experimental Archaeology: Reconstruction of Material Heritage of Lithuania, Volume II by Daiva Luchtaniene (ed)

Author(s)
Paul Wright 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/2

Experimental Archaeology: Reconstruction of Material Heritage of Lithuania, Volume II, is an interesting journey back into the past by means of practical experimentations. An insightful volume that contains a collection of well-written and well-crafted essays exploring different facets of ancient life in Lithuania...

Conference Review: Ancient shipping and shipbuilding: issues of research, reconstruction and possibilities of use for the development of tourism, Rivne, Ukraine, 2023

Author(s)
Andrii Petrauskas 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/1
Open-air archaeological museums are one of the promising directions in museum activities in Ukraine that is rapidly developing. Their main feature is the interactive nature of the exposition, which allows engaging visitors in the historical atmosphere of a certain period. One might use a non-scientific comparison as a portal in time and space...

RETOLD: Review of the Meeting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), June 2022

Author(s)
Clara Masriera i Esquerra 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/1
In June 2022, the first onsite RETOLD project meeting took place in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), hosted, and organised by the Prehistory department. The meeting in Barcelona was important to introduce the RETOLD project to a wider public of specialists and students, and to test the idea of the web-app for the first time with all partners and some expert guests...

Conference Review: ACTION! Museums in the Climate Crisis, NEMO 2023

Author(s)
Julia Heeb 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/1
The NEMO European Museum Conference 2023: and… ACTION! Museums in the climate crisis took place in Lahti, Finland from 19-21 November. Almost 300 museum professionals from all over Europe took part, listening, discussing, and being inspired by a variety of formats and speakers. EXARC's Vice-Chair, Dr Julia Heeb from Stadtmuseum Berlin, was present...