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Book Review: The Movement - Comments on the Booklet How to Organize a Historical Event involving Reenactment Groups

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Ingrid Galadriel Aune Nilsen 1
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What defines re-enactment and living history?

As I believe that a clarification of terms and the contextualisation of matters is a good starting point for any investigation, this question marks the beginning of my guide (Aune Nilsen 2015:6-7). Talking to organisers, museum workers and re-enactors in Scandinavia, I have noted that they all have different answers to this question.

Book Review: the Lifecycle of Structures in Experimental Archaeology 鈥 An Object Biography Approach by L. Hurcombe and P. Cunningham

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Peter Bye-Jensen 1
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This book is made up of 16 papers that are a collection of results from a European Culture Project (OpenArch) that ran from 2010-2015. It was edited by Linda Hurcombe and Penny Cunningham. This work is dedicated to the late shipwright Brian Cumby, who was deeply involved with making replicas of several prehistoric boats...

Museums as Good Places

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David Anderson 1
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It was a bold and challenging brief. The trustees decided to commission two alternative reports. They invited Patrick Geddes, the pioneering biologist, sociologist, environmentalist, social reformer and city planner, to produce one of these, and T. H. Mawson the other. For Geddes, this was an opportunity to bring together his life's work across many disciplines in one visionary scheme. He spent months, with the assistance of a photographer, recording almost every square yard of the city, before submitting his plan.

A Course in Experiential Archaeology at an Archeopark as a Part of Active University Education

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Veronika Mike拧ov谩 1 鉁,
D. Mar拧谩lek 1
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As with any other science, archaeology constantly adopts new methods and trends over time. University education in the field can be very helpful advancing sciences in every country. This type of education influences the early stages of future top scientists and forms their future careers. Therefore, education should reflect not only scientific innovations but also innovative educational methods...

Book Review: Management of Open-Air Museums. Workpackage 2: 鈥淚mprovement of Museum Management鈥 by Jakobsen, B & Burrow, S (eds).

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Paul Edward Montgomery 1
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The five year OpenArch project concluded in 2015. It was an effort to create a permanent partnership between Archaeological Open-Air Museums (or, AOAMs) in Europe. The project saw eleven participating organisations come together to 鈥 among other objectives 鈥 produce work packages that would be accessible to people with an interest in the workings of AOAMs...

The Omnis Barbaria Experimental Archaeology Camp for Children 鈥 First Edition

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Marius Ardeleanu 1
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Like in many other European countries, during the past 15 years, Romania has seen an increased interest by archaeologists and history enthusiasts towards the reconstruction of artefacts and certain phenomenal aspects of the past...

Obituary: Steve Watts (25 July 1947 - 21 March 2016)

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Doug Meyer 1
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I first met Steve in the summer of 1990. I was a student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) following a summer course in anthropology called Southeastern Indians. The course included several field trips, one of which was to the Schiele Museum where we visited the Catawba Village and listened to a presentation by Steve Watts...

High Tech for the Stone Age 鈥 iBeacons in Open-Air Museums

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Ulrike Kroll 1,
R眉diger Kelm 1
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Over the last few years, a lot of different digital communication technologies for the transfer / transmission of audio-visual informations have been developed, some very sophisticated, some very complicated (and expensive) and in recent times mostly based on applications for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets...

Living History as an Instrument for Historical and Cultural Exchange in German Archaeological Open-Air Museums: an Online Survey Defines Present Status

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Tatjana Meder 1,
Jana Seipelt 1 鉁,
Sabrina Slanitz 1
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In Germany, for several years now it has become increasingly significant as a means of reflecting the cultural exchange of archaeological open-air museums, as well as in scientific discussions and interdisciplinary meetings

V Congreso Internacional de Arqueologia Experimental

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Organised by
Institut Catal脿 de Paleocologia Humana i Evoluci贸 Social (IPHES)
Institut Catal脿 d鈥橝rqueologia Cl脿ssica (ICAC)
Institut Catal脿 de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural (ICRPC)

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  • Spain

We are delighted to announce that the Institut Catal脿 de Paleocologia Humana i Evoluci贸 Social (IPHES), the Institut Catal脿 d鈥橝rqueologia Cl脿ssica (ICAC), the Institut Catal脿 de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural (ICRPC) and the EXPERIMENTA Association will organize the V International Congress of Experimental Archaeology in Tarragona on 25, 26 and 27 October 2017.