Neolithic

Kierikki Stone Age Centre – The Advantages of Being an OpenArch Funded Project

Leena Lehtinen (FI)
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/4
Mixed Matters
OpenArch Special Digest 2015 Issue 2
***Compared to other European countries, the number of Finnish archaeological open-air museums is limited. Currently, Kierikki and Saarijärvi Stone Age villages are the only two open-air museums under the care of professional museums. Both villages specialise in the Stone Age period (Kierriki 2015; Saarijärvi 2015)...

Interview: "The Small Things Paint the Big Picture" with Harm Paulsen

Wulf Hein (DE)
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/4
Mixed Matters
I meet Harm Paulsen (70), the best known and longest working experimental archaeologist in Germany, in his apartment in Schleswig. Although the rooms aren't small, it is only possible to move around by holding in your belly and not breathing, as everywhere, standing, hanging or lying around, is evidence of Harm's professional and private life – a clear line between the two is not visible...

Conference Review: Was it all worth it? Archaeological Reconstructions Between Science and Event

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/4
Mixed Matters
On the 3 February 1990, as the Iron Curtain dropped and the border between Bavaria and Bohemia opened, three archaeologists from both countries met. One year later they managed to get 27 participants together and soon the archaeological working group East Bavaria, West- and South Bohemia (and latter also Upper Austria) was a fact.

Matilda Siebrecht cand. PhD

Member of EXARC since
E-mail address
m.i.siebrecht [at] rug.nl
Country
the Netherlands
Crafts & Skills
Ancient Technology
Bone / Antler
Jewellery
Leatherwork & tanning
New Media

Education:

MA Archaeology from the University of Aberdeen (2014)

My dissertation looked at the possible uses of seaweed in Viking Age Metallurgy. This research used experimental methods working with seaweed in an iron-age style forge (provided by EXARC member Dave Budd).

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2014

Christian Horn (DE)
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/3
Mixed Matters
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***Volume number 13 of the periodical Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa. Bilanz contains 215 pages with 18 different articles on a wide variety of subjects. The contributions are presented in four sections: Experiment and Test, Reconstruction Archaeology, Theory and Emanation’, and Short reports...

Construction of a Neolithic Longhouse Model in the Museum of Prehistory Urgeschichtemuseum (MAMUZ)

Matthias W. Pacher and
Wolfgang F.A. Lobisser (AT)
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/3
Archaeological Open-Air Museum
The museum of prehistory Urgeschichtemuseum (MAMUZ) in Asparn an der Zaya looks back on a long tradition, starting in the late 1960s, when the province of Lower Austria’s prehistoric collection found a new home at the freshly renovated palace Schloss Asparn. While the palace was being set up as a presentation area for the collection items...

OKRA "Tutti i colori della preistoria" (IT)

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OKRA is an Archaeological Thematic Park that offers the reconstruction of a slice of Neolithic life as a didactic/educational instrument designed to learning of the oldest history of human being, through the trial and the knowledge of his routines and to the knowledge and comprehension about the delicate relationships between Man and Nature.

OKRA is an Archaeological Thematic Park that offers the reconstruction of a slice of Neolithic life as a didactic/educational instrument designed to learning of the oldest history of human being...