review

Book Review: Faserwerkstatt by Doris Fischer

Author(s)
Christina Spaulding 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/4
As the title implies, Faser Werkstatt: Traditionelle Textiltechnik mit natürlichen Materialien is a direct and practical book on the historical creation and use of fibers. It is aimed at a casual reader with little to no knowledge or experience with the fiber arts, with detailed instructions on creating and using threads and ropes made from natural fibers...

Event Review: Archaeology Days in Kernave, 2023

Author(s)
Yarema Ivantsiv 1,
Maria Ivantsiv 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/3

NGO "Chorna Galych", Ukraine, first visited Kernave in 2017; this was the second time the NGO participated in this event. The experience of this trip revealed to us new interesting aspects of cultural heritage interpretation methods and became an important starting point for changes in our own attitude to the matter. It was especially interesting to see how the festival and the reserve have changed.
 

Book Review: Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development by Sophia Labadi

Author(s)
Jordana Maguire 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/3
The concept of heritage has long been associated with the preservation and commemoration of our collective cultural legacy. In the context of development, however, heritage takes on a multifaceted role, encompassing not only the preservation of historical artefacts and traditions but also their active integration into processes that drive socioeconomic progress.

Book Review: Draft Animals in the Past, Present and Future by Claus Kropp and Lena Zoll (eds)

Author(s)
Rena Maguire 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/3
The domestication and subsequent training of strong animals to pull vehicles was a game changer for humans. Just like the first person who jumped onto a horse and hung on as they veered giddily towards a new horizon, driving and draft meant that humans got places faster – goods could be stored in a vehicle for longer journeys, trade goods became more than what a human could carry on their backs...

RETOLD: Review of the Meeting at ASTRA, Sibiu, March 2023

Author(s)
George Tomegea 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/3
At the end of March 2023 the second face-to-face meeting of the partners from the RETOLD Project was organised in Sibiu. The host was the ASTRA National Museum Complex. The meeting took place in the Open-Air Museum of Dumbrava Sibiului, one of the largest open air museums in Europe that comprises over 400 traditional dwellings...

Book Review: Fragments of the Bronze Age by Matthew G. Knight

Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/3
In this book, Matthew Knight examines fragmentation of metal objects from hoards dating to the Bronze Age of South-West Britain, and uses experimental archaeology to better assess fragmentation and destruction. Fragmentation is the deliberate destruction of metal objects. Other forms of destruction can include bending, folding, or crushing objects so that they are no longer useable.

Conference Review: EAC13, Torun, Poland, May 2023

Author(s)
Phoebe Baker 1 ✉,
E. Giovanna Fregni 2,
Jess Shaw 3
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/3
This year EXARC/EAC held its first fully hybrid conference at Nikolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland on 1-3 May. Using the experience and technology from the EAC World Tour, the previous conference in 2021, EXARC was able to include international speakers who would otherwise be unable to participate in the conference.

Book Review: Reality or Fiction?

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/2
In October 2018, a conference took place in Southern Poland. It was attended mainly by people from Poland and Slovakia, but also included several EXARC members from abroad. The conference was titled “Archaeological Open-Air Museums: Reconstruction and Reenactment – Reality or Fiction?” which is also the title of this book which was published in 2022...

Conference Review: Living History and Experimental Archaeology, Ukraine, March 2023

Author(s)
Maria Ivantsiv 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/2
The time of change, the time of choice came to Ukraine with the beginning of the war. We had to set vectors and priorities in all spheres of life. Science, culture and, in particular, open-air museums were no exception. First of all, we faced the issue of the protection and preservation of museum collections...