Bronze Age

Experimenting with Protohistory: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Experimenting with Protohistory: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Date
Organised by
Association pour l’expérimentation et la recherche archéologique (APERA)
Collège des Ecoles Doctorales et de l’ED 112 de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Country
France

Call for Papers and Articles

The association APERA in partnership with the College of Doctoral Schools and ED 112, and with the support of the University Paris 1 

EXARC Beer Brewing Chat

Date
Organised by
EXARC
Country
the Netherlands

For historical-archaeological brewers, we gather for our monthly chat. It is open access and will include links and discussion about craft brewing - you decide what will be on the table! The chat starts at 15:00h CET (Amsterdam time) and may take about 1.5 hours.

Active Weekend: Creating Rammed Earth in the Bronze Age Forge

Active Weekend: Creating Rammed Earth in the Bronze Age Forge
Date
-
Organised by
MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya (AT)
Country
Austria

On Saturday, September 19 and Sunday, September 20, the journey to the Bronze Age continues, when experimental archaeologist Wolfgang Lobisser delves into the secrets of prehistoric clay building. Under his expert guidance, visitors create rammed earth in the Bronze Age forge and learn how to judge, process, apply and compact clay.

Active Weekend: Sealing the Walls of the "Schwellenbau" Building with Clay

Active Weekend: Sealing the Walls of the "Schwellenbau" Building with Clay
Date
-
Organised by
MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya (AT)
Country
Austria

On Saturday September 12th and Sunday September 13th, visitors can learn all kinds of interesting facts about living and everyday life in the Bronze Age. Franz Pieler, the Scientific director of the MAMUZ, shows the techniques and materials used by our ancestors to build their houses thousands of years ago.

Myth tour: Once upon a Time

Myth tour: Once upon a Time
Date
Organised by
Archäologisches Freilichtmuseum Oerlinghausen (DE)
Country
Germany

How did people explain the world to their children 1000, 5000 or 10,000 years ago? Were earth and water separated, were there battles between monsters or did a cow lick someone out of the ice? In a tour we deal with myths and stories about beginnings and origins. There are sources from the Middle Ages, Iron and Bronze Ages that echo how people explain the world to themselves and to others.

Techno-functional Study of the Personal Ornaments in Lignite of the Boira Fusca Cave (Cuorgnè, Torino-Italy)

S. Viola (IT),
G. Gaj (IT),
D. Del Caro (IT) and
M. Besse (CH)
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/3
Ancient Technology
11th EAC Trento 2019
***This paper aims to present a techno-functional study of lignite ornamental objects found during the Fedele excavations (1977-1980) in the Boira Fusca Cave (Cuorgnè, Salto-Turin, Italy). The site demonstrates a chrono-cultural sequence which extends from the late Palaeolithic to the Modern era...

Enhancing the Accuracy of Use Interpretation: The Discovery of a New Wear Formation with the Complementary Methods of Experimental Archaeology and Use-Wear Analysis

Amber Roy (UK)
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/3
Experimental Archaeology
11th EAC Trento 2019
***Experimental archaeology and use-wear analysis are methods used together to understand aspects of an object’s life, such as manufacture and use. This paper demonstrates the benefits of analysing use-wear through experiments. It presents the results of experiments which were carried out to test the use of battle-axes and axe-hammers...

Ceramicists, Apprentices or Part-Timers? On the Modelling and Assembling of Peak Sanctuary Figurines

Céline Murphy (IE)
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/3
Experimental Archaeology

Who Modelled and Assembled Peak Sanctuary Figurines?

In this paper, I explore the pervasive, yet only partially investigated, question of who made peak sanctuary figurines. Peak sanctuary figurines are small anthropomorphic and zoomorphic clay representations, found by the thousands at Cretan Bronze Age mountain sites, alongside a range of utilitarian ceramic vessels and, occasionally, ceramic votive body parts and models, metal objects, stone vessels and small pebble clusters.

A Short Guide to Making Wax Tablets

Αntonis Vlavogilakis (GR)
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/3
Mixed Matters
A few years ago, I conducted a series of experiments focusing on wax tablets as drawing tools in antiquity (Vlavogilakis, in press. All references to my earlier experiments with wax tablets refer to this paper). When this was over, I decided to create a diptych as a present. The method of making was inspired from examples of tablets and diptychs from different periods: Bronze Age...