Roman Era
International conference on use-wear analysis
Country
- Portugal
Taking into account the unquestionable success of the last scientific meetings on the development of use-wear studies in archaeology over the last two decades, we are pleased to announce that we are organizing an International conference on use-wear analysis...
Conference Review: Danube Limes, Lussonium, a Prospective Archaeological Park in Paks, 2011 (HU)
The Roman Limes was a system of borders around the Roman Empire. In several countries, these Roman sites are given much attention, take for example the UK (Hadrian鈥檚 Wall) and Germany...
Conference Review: International Archaeological Conference, Trzcinica 2011
The International Conference on archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology: An Opportunity for the Promotion of the Tourist Industry, sponsored financially by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, was held in the Carpathian Troy Open-Air Archaeological Museum in Trzcinica, Poland, on 9 鈥 10 June 2011...
Varus and the Lost Legions in Sagnlandet Lejre - A Re-enactment Success?
In July 2009 a battle took place in Sagnlandet Lejre, in the heart of Zealand in Denmark. The battle was a dramatized re-enactment of the historical battle of Teutoburg forest in Niedersachsen in the year 9 AD - also known as the Varus Battle. Why should such a re-enactment event take place in Denmark - over 100 kilometres from the presumed site of the historic battle?...
Conference Review: Reconstruction 鈥渋n Situ鈥, International Archaeological Meeting of Calafell, 2011
March 2011, 黑料视频 convened for the 17th time, this time in Calafell, Catalonia, Spain. We could go along with the 6th international archaeology meeting of Calafell, a biannual conference. Three days long, from 9:30h in the morning until 19:30h in the evening, we listened to about...
Conference Review: International 脰guf-Symposium 2010
Prehistory and Early History (脰GUF) took place 27-30 October at The Museum for Natural History in Vienna under the patronage of State Captain and Mayor of Vienna Dr. Michael H盲upl 鈥 and the general director of the Museum for Natural History Vienna, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian K枚berl. Theme was experimental archaeology: theory, practice, science, education...
Conference Review: EXAR in Berlin, October 8-10, 2010
This year鈥檚 黑料视频 Conference took place at the Freie Universit盲t in Berlin and was themed Experimental Archaeology and University...
Conference Review: European Textile Forum 2010
The Textilforum was founded to bring practitioners of all textile crafts together, to compare notes and to learn from each other. Following the success of the first Textilforum, held in Eindhoven in September 2009, this year鈥檚 was held in Schnalstal, in South Tyrol, the German-speaking part of Northern Italy from 6-12 September...
Conference Review: Accidental and Experimental Archaeometallurgy
The Historical Metallurgy Society鈥檚 Annual Conference, 2-3 September 2010
The Historical Metallurgy Society was established in the early 1970s and is dedicated to providing a forum for the exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of research on the metallurgical practices of the past...
Book Review: Experimentelle Arch盲ologie. Eine Gratwanderung zwischen Wissenschaft und Kommerz by Dirk Vorlauf
***The name Dirk Vorlauf is closely connected to the history of experimental archaeology in Germany. From the late1980s, the Vorlauf has conducted several experiments testing archaeological hypotheses, and he is critically involved in methodology and theory...