life experiment
Book Review: Mittelsteinzeit, ein Leben im Paradies? by Werner Pfeifer
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Considering actual studies about the analysis of ancient DNA is an important question, if only the lifestyle or the population, too, changed when hunter-gatherers became farmers and stockbreeders. The results point so far towards the latter possibility. However, the foragers of the Northern European Erteb酶lle culture preserved their lifestyle for one millennium, even though they lived in neighboring areas...
Event Review: a 鈥淢esolithic Living鈥 Project
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From the 27 July to the 6 September 2015 the Stone Age Park Dithmarschen (Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf, A脰ZA) organised a Mesolithic living history experiment in its newly constructed 鈥楳esolithic Settlement鈥 finished last year. The experiment sought to investigate, through careful reconstruction, how people may have carried out their daily lives in the Mesolithic period...
Testing a Reconstruction: A Frosty Week in a Viking Age House
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In the summers of 2010 and 2011, an archaeologically inspired Viking Age horizontal log house with a two-layer split plank roof, clay floor and a dry-stone stove without a chimney was built in R玫uge, Estonia. In the winter of 2012 (30 January 2012 - 05 February 2012) a one-week living-experiment was organised to test the building...
Interview: Hans Horreus de Haas
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December 2010, Hans de Haas turned 75 and this seemed a fitting occasion for an in depth interview with this Nestor of Dutch living prehistory and experimental archaeology...
WEA鈥檚 Latest Life Experiment
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The WEA, Society for Experimental Archaeology, is a sub-society of the NJBG, the Dutch Historical Youth Association. It is formed by youngsters aged 12 to 26 who enjoy participating in several aspects of living history. WEA offers them a chance to learn about history, set up their own archaeological experiments, and the opportunity to participate in living history for example by learning a...