Bronze Age

Kalòs - l’Archeodromo del Salento (IT)

Member of EXARC
No

Archeodromo Kalòs is a vast landscape park themed with experimental archaeology. It was founded by Meridies. They present a mixture of history and art and offer a journey to the origins of this region: the Messapi, Greeks and Romans, "in a place where nature and myth merge."

How many times we happen to think about what life was like when electricity, water and communications were not at hand? Would you like to take a step back in time? Today you can. The path runs from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

IRM - International Reenactmentmarket

IRM 2020
Date
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Organised by
RömerWelt am Caput Limitis (DE)
Country
Germany

On April 25th and 26th 2020 the international re-enactment fair IRM2020 will take place for the first time in RömerWelt at the caput limitis in Rheinbrohl. On both days from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm three dozen exhibitors present handcrafted replicas and equipment for living history and re-enactment from the Stone Age to the 19th Century AD.

Veien Kulturminnepark (NO)

Member of EXARC
Yes

Veien Kulturminnepark contains one of Eastern Norway’s largest burial grounds from the Early Iron Age, a reconstructed longhouse and a modern museum. Excavations uncovered traces of four longhouses dated to the Early Iron Age.

Veien Kulturminnepark contains one of Eastern Norway’s largest burial grounds from the Early Iron Age, a reconstructed longhouse and a modern museum. Excavations uncovered traces of four longhouses dated to the Early Iron Age...

A Field Trip to the Ukraine, April 2010

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/3
Mixed Matters
In April 2010, a conference took place at Olevsk, which was a good occasion to go to Kyiv and meet Dr Andrey Petrauskas of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The main purpose of the visit was to discuss the plans for reconstructions at three archaeological sites, to set it in perspective of other reconstructions elsewhere...

Book Review: The Minoan Double Axe: An Experimental Study of Production and Use by Maria Lowe Fri

James R. Mathieu (US)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/3
Mixed Matters
British Archaeological Reports has once again provided the world with an excellent publication on experimental archaeology. Maria Lowe Fri’s book is a revised version of her Ph.D. thesis at Stockholm University (2007). As the title indicates, it focuses on the Minoan double axe...

Public Outreach in the Drents Museum in Assen (NL)

Blue van der Zwan-Deen (NL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Interpretation
Part of my job as museum teacher at the Drents Museum in Assen is attending to the all the groups that visit our museum. This includes the great number of children, both elementary school and high school students, that visit our museum. A lot of children think of a museum as a boring place where there is nothing to do but look at old paintings...

Archaeological Open-Air Museums in the Netherlands, a Bit of History

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Archaeological Open-Air Museum
This article is a result of my interest in, and experience with, archaeological open-air museums. With the start of HOME Eindhoven in 1982, I became actively involved in these museums and I was one of the people involved from the first moment in EXARC. From 2005 onward, I have been conducting postgraduate research at the University of Exeter into archaeological open-air museums...