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Early Middle Ages

Arch Building Demonstration

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  • Germany

Söhnke Raimann, archaeotechnician at the AFM, demonstrates the production of a ready-to-fire bow and arrows. 

A foretaste of the bow making seminar on June 12th and 13th, 2021, for everyone who has not yet been able to decide to participate.

Bone Processing

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  • Germany

Bones, legs, horns, antlers and teeth - it's wonderful what you can use from animals. When there was no plastic, for example, combs and buttons were made from antlers and were accordingly expensive.

Horn is elastic and becomes soft when heated - not only bow ends are made from it, but all kinds of everyday devices.

Building with Clay

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  • Germany

In his course, Peter Knodel would like to introduce the advantages, techniques and possible uses of the versatile building material clay. This will be done very practically when building a wall in one of the Zeiteninsel buildings. 

Traces of Manufacture, Use, Repair and Modification Observed on Ethnographic Throwing Sticks and Boomerangs

Author(s)
Luc Bordes 1 ✉
Publication Date
Throwing sticks and boomerangs are present in the collections of many French and international museums. Collected mainly in the 19th and 20th centuries by travelers, they were mainly analyzed from a stylistic point of view, to relate them to their region of origin. Some of these objects were made by the indigenous populations especially to be exchanged with Europeans and only bear macro-traces of manufacture...

The Past Has a Future! 2021

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Organised by
Department of Archaeology University of Warsaw

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  • Poland

We would like to invite you to participate in the 2nd Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology ‘PrzeszÅ‚ość ma przyszÅ‚ość!/ The Past Has a Future!’, which will take place, in a hybrid format at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (Poland) and online on March 22-26th, 2021

Book Review: Craft Beer Culture and Modern Medievalism: Brewing Dissent by Noëlle Phillips

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Susan Verberg 1 ✉
Publication Date

In Craft Beer Culture and Modern Medievalism: Brewing Dissent, Noëlle Phillips takes a critical look at the people and legends of craft beer and the ways in which medievalism and masculinity have shaped the industry of craft beer brewing. Craft beer may seem to be a rather flippant choice for an analytical scholarly study, but it is a movement deeply infused with modern assumptions...

La Nuit Antique

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  • Switzerland

La Nuit Antique is a free general public event taking place in Geneva, dedicated to the transmission of Antiquity through interactive activities and live shows.