EXARC Conferences, Meetings and Workshops

This year the REARC meetings are scheduled for October 16th and 17th in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Center for Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington will host Friday presentations. On Saturday, REARC craftspeople will hold a variety of demonstrations/workshops at the historic Ferry Farm site – George Washington’s childhood farm. Conference participants will have the opportunity to take part in these activities while touring this important historic site.

The recent past has witnessed a flowering of scholarship explicitly addressing the way that individuals, communities, and societies responded to the introduction of the pottery wheel. In region after region, period after period, existing potting traditions were adjusted, altered, supplanted, or otherwise changed as potters negotiated with the different practices that this technological device enabled.

The #EAC12 conference will celebrate two milestones. EXARC is now 20 years old, and, with an active membership in 40 countries worldwide, cooperates with a host of leading international organisations, like ICOM, NEMO, REARC and Colonial Williamsburg. Exeter University (UK) started the first MA in Experimental Archaeology in the world with its first intake in 2000 and the first graduates of the programme 20 years ago...