Palaeolithic

Trial By Fire Conference

Date
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Organised by
UCL (UK)
Country
United Kingdom

Free to attend. Fire always leaves its mark and a wealth of information behind. This conference aims to explore these events by bringing together ideas from across archaeological and anthropological sub-disciplines. Registration now extended until 31 March 2019.

Where: UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, Kings Cross, London WC1H 0PY, UK

Flint Knapping Symposium

Date
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Organised by
ArcheoParc Schnalstal / ArcheoParc Val Senales (IT)
Wulf Hein
Country
Italy

The thirteenth edition of the Flint Knapping Symposium will take place this year. The practical annual conference in training and continuing education is dedicated to professionals in the field of flint knapping. The program will take place from May 29 to June 1, 2019 at the archeoParc in Val Senales valley, with work sessions planned as well as excursions to the surrounding area.

Time travel. Hunters, gatherers and farmers

Time travel. Hunters, gatherers and farmers
Date
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Organised by
Muzeum Archeologiczne w Biskupinie (PL)
Country
Poland

"Time travel" is our new series with three events, each focused on a different archaeological era. "Hunters, gatherers and farmers" is the time travel to the Stone Age. During this journey you will see how prehistoric hunter-gatherers obtained food and why they lived in temporary shelters.

Paths of archaeology. Science - Culture - Pop culture

Paths of archaeology. Science - Culture - Pop culture in Biskupin
Date
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Organised by
Muzeum Archeologiczne w Biskupinie (PL)
Country
Poland

Are you interested in the scientific research and achievements of archaeology? Are you a schoolmate and don’t you know what to choose to study in the future? Are you a teacher or a parent and do you want to inspire children with the scientific knowledge?

Session Experimental Archaeology in the Balkans: Summa Summarum

Date
Organised by
Serbian Archaeological Society (RS)
EXARC
Country
Serbia

Until recently, in the Balkans, experimental archaeology was not considered as something that could contribute to science. For decades, this useful and fruitful branch of archaeology represents a genuine scientific discipline in a number of western and central European countries, as well as in Russia.

Archaeological Spring in Biskupin

Archaeological Spring in Biskupin
Date
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Organised by
Muzeum Archeologiczne w Biskupinie (PL)
Country
Poland

We will open the new tourist season with a bang! We invite you for a picnic to Biskupin. "Archaeological spring" is an event during which our park wakes up after the winter and teems with new spring life. Exhibitors and workshops will be waiting for visitors, including flintstone, prehistoric and early medieval weaving, pottery, and making decorati

Association for Protection of Heritage, Archaeology and Museums of Vila do Conde (APPA-VC) (PT)

The aim of APPA-VC is to study, protect and disseminate local heritage through research, conservation, excavation, management of archaeological sites and education. We are a group of professionals of archaeology, history, conservation, architecture, psychology, sculpture and biology acting specifically on Vila do Conde city's Heritage.

The aim of APPA-VC is to study, protect and disseminate local patrimony through conservation, excavation, management of archaeological sites and education. We are a group of professionals of archaeology, history, conservation, psychology, sculpture and biology acting specifically on Vila do Conde city's patrimony...

Event Review: EXARC at the Times and Epochs Festival, Moscow, Russia

E. Giovanna Fregni (IT)
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/2
Mixed Matters
In August 2018, members of EXARC participated in Moscow’s Times and Epochs Festival for the third year . The annual festival is held on park boulevards that surround the inner city, providing an ideal green space for reenactors to recreate various periods of Russia’s history. The main sites were located in Tverskaya Square, Nikitsky, Passion and Tver Boulevards, on Kamergersky Lane and Profsoyuznaya Street...

Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (ES)

Member of EXARC
Yes

Though only  less more  than 50 years old, the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) has already consolidated itself amongst the 200 best universities in the world within the main university rankings and is located within the top 10 new universities with greatest international projection and prestige.

Though only  less more  than 50 years old, the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) has already consolidated itself amongst the 200 best universities in the world within the main university rankings and is located within the top 10 new universities with greatest international projection and prestige...

Archeopark dell’Etna (IT)

Member of EXARC
No

The Archeopark Etna is the first real-life prehistoric interactive village reconstructed in Sicily on the basis of archaeological documentation obtained in Sicily, in particular Etna, and experimentations in the field of lithic, textile, ceramic and agricultural crafts. A dynamic educational park, open to the public and schools, aiming to demonstrate the millenarian bond of people with the territory by means of an experiential path.

In a hut daily activities are reproduced: spinning, weaving, milling of cereals, wining of vegetable fibers, working of clay, decorative painting by crushing natural pigments, processing of animal bones and wood to make ornaments and tools of various kinds; a large sampling of vases faithfully reproduced according to ancient methods is shown.