Late Middle Ages
Event Review: Food Workshop in Archeon at the OpenArch conference 2013
***Food and drink are basic needs for every human being. From the perspective of our modern culinary practices, with all its specialities and customs, the traditional cuisines, and especially the pre- and protohistoric dishes, seem not only very far away, but also very primitive and have a negative connotation...
Mittelalterlicher Friesenhof (DE)
The first Medieval Frisian open-air museum will give life to the characteristic lakeland environment and culture of the 13 century AD in a dismissed clay quarry.
The project for the first Medieval Frisian Open Air Museum.
Mittelalterhaus Nienover (DE)
In the Northeim Regency, Nienover represents an important historical site with the remnants of an entire medieval town extensively investigated and carefully excavated in some areas.
In the Northeim Regency, Nienover represents an important historical site with a full re-construction of a medieval house.
Arche Warder (DE)
In the middle of Schleswig-Holstein the Arche Warder is the largest animal park in Europe for rare and endangered domestic animals. It is located in the middle of Schleswig-Holstein between the lakes of Wardersee and Brahmsee.
Within the largest animal park in Europe for rare and endangered domestic animals,the past comes to life also in the re-constructed prehistoric village.
Katharina Detreköy
The point of my interest is Northeast Greenlandic archaeology: Independence, Saqqaq (a settlement in Western Greenland), Dorset culture (a Paleo-Inuit culture, lasting from 500 BC to between 1000 and 1500 AD).
From the Soil to the Iron Product - the Technology of Medieval Iron Smelting
***Nowadays, the development of technology rushes past the people of the machine-based technical civilisation, therefore they fail to understand the technological wonders that surround them. One of these is the ancient technology of iron smelting...
Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) and Reenactment - Concept, Problems, Approaches in Our Experience
Book Review: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences by L. Shillito, E. Fairnell and H. S. Williams (eds)
Arturs Tomsons PhD
I am an archaeologist working at the National History Museum of Latvia archaeology department since 2007, also a member of the Association of the Archaeologists of Latvia. I am also working on different projects as a self-employed field archaeologist.