Newest Era
Book Review: Proceedings from the ReConference 2018
Approaches to the Documentation of Houses in Open-Air Museums
Standardized Reporting of Experimental Iron Smelting - A modest (?) Proposal
Traces of Manufacture, Use, Repair and Modification Observed on Ethnographic Throwing Sticks and Boomerangs
A Shared Warp: The Woven Belts of the Lao Han People, China
The renowned weaver Peter Collingwood briefly mentioned such belts in his book The Techniques of Tablet Weaving (Collingwood, 1982, pp.219-220). Not long before he died in 2008, he contributed a couple of pages on these belts to the book Minority Textile Techniques: Costumes from South-West China (Collingwood, 2007, pp.28-29).
Discussion: The Concept of Authenticity in Collections of Open-Air Museums
How is it possible that if you go into an arts museum, the ceramics you see may be made yesterday and may be a valued and legitimate part of the museum collection, while in open-air museums, a similar object ...
Conference Review: The Norwegian Forum for Experimental Archaeology 2020
Book Review: Spaces that tell stories: Recreating Historical Environments by Donna R. Braden
Spaces that tell stories: Recreating historical Environments is a textbook and a how-to manual for those setting up a new exhibition or living history site, or for those evaluating existing interpretation on a site. Everybody who works in museum education, exhibition and living history knows how fantastic it is when an historical environment engages a visitor in the topic. We also know how difficult it can be...
Conference Review: Archaeological Approaches to the Study of the Potter鈥檚 Wheel, November 2020, via Discord and YouTube
Pottery Chat
Country
- the Netherlands
Following the Potter鈥檚 Wheel Conference in November, we will have a potter鈥檚 chat open to anybody. Discussion is open about any pottery related subject, wheel throwing, clays, ethnography, but also pottery trade, using ceramics, breakage and their archaeology.