Late Middle Ages

A Knight’s Day

Date
Organised by
EmCadeamentos (PT)
Organised by
GEMAC
Country
Portugal

The activity consists of training the small warriors as knights fit for small combats with the parents. They will be able to know the equipment’s and techniques of combats as well as to be able to try out real equipment used by fighters.
The afternoon will be filled with theoretical and practical components, equipment of soft materials will be used for the youngest.

V Congreso Internacional de Arqueologia Experimental

Date
-
Organised by
Experimenta (ES)
Organised by
Institut Català de Paleocologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES)
Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)
Institut Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural (ICRPC)
Country
Spain

We are delighted to announce that the Institut Català de Paleocologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC), the Institut Català 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.

EmCadeamentos (PT)

At EmCadeamentos we dedicate ourselves to promote and disseminate the historical heritage, with the intention of value it. Minding this, we gathered a group of historians, archaeologists and other professionals that combining their theoretical knowledge to their practical skills; promote cultural activities with a real historical foundation.

At EmCadeamentos we dedicate ourselves to promote and disseminate the historical heritage, with the intention of value it. Minding this, we gathered a group of historians, archaeologists and other professionals that combining their theoretical knowledge to their practical skills; promote cultural activities with a real historical foundation.

Conference Review: EAA Vilnius – about Archaeological Tourism, Visualisation, Experiment and Reconstruction

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/4
Mixed Matters
The European Association of Archaeologists held its annual conference of 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania. About 1,500 participants attended a programme, with a similar number of papers, in over 100 sessions. About a dozen EXARC members attended; what follows here is a review of three sessions...

Spyros Bakas MA

Member of EXARC since
E-mail address
spyrosbakas [at] gmail.com
Country
Greece
Crafts & Skills
Weapons

Spyros Bakas is among the first to introduce and promote Living History in Greece in 2002. Since then, he has participated, organised and directed numerous Experimental Archaeology as well as Living History projects in Greece and worldwide.

Cooking in Baskets Using Hot Rocks

Jonathan Thornton (US)
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/3
Ancient Technology
Baskets are among the most ancient of human artefacts. Everyone is familiar with their most common functions as containers for transport and storage. When told that baskets have also served as cooking vessels, most people will be unable to conceive of how this is possible, yet this was a primary function of baskets for many cultures of the past, and some until the present...

Historical Park (BG)

Member of EXARC
Yes

In today's Bulgaria there are over 40 000 cultural and historical monuments, amongst which are significant prehistoric findings, Thracian tombs, objects from the Ancient Greek Age, Roman fortresses, monuments from the First and the Second Bulgarian Kingdom as well as other architectural landmarks from the period of the Renaissance.

In today's Bulgaria there are over 40 000 cultural and historical monuments, amongst which are significant prehistoric findings, Thracian tombs, objects from the Ancient Greek Age, Roman fortresses, monuments from the First and the Second Bulgarian Kingdom as well as other architectural landmarks from the period of the Renaissance.

Huns Party

Date
-
Organised by
MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya (AT)
Country
Austria

There will be horse riding
It is going to be wild
It is going to be Huns-like

The stories about Attila and his horse-warriors are legendary. However, were they really that brutal and greedy as history tells us? The Urgeschichtemuseum MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya, not far from Vienna, shows all their aspects at the Huns Party on 27 and 28 August...

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (IE)

Member of EXARC
Yes

The Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC) at University College Dublin, Ireland, established since 2012, is one of the only specifically designed and dedicated, on-campus university facilities in the world for experimental archaeology and material culture studies. It supports research projects, innovative teaching, and public outreach activities, so as to enable the creation of a better understanding of the nature and role of crafts, technologies and materiality in people’s lives in the past.

The Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC) at University College Dublin, Ireland, established since 2012, is one of the only specifically designed and dedicated, on-campus university facilities in the world for experimental archaeology and material culture studies.