experimental archaeology

Book Review: Experimental Archaeology – Between Enlightenment and Experience by Petersson and Narmo

Jodi Reeves Flores (UK)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/3
Mixed Matters
This book developed from the project Experimental Archaeology – Between Enlightenment and Experience, which was composed of a series of regional meetings held in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. This hardbound publication contains quality illustrations and colour photographs; and the language revision has been done to a solid quality...

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...

Conference Review: III Congrès Internacional d’Arqueologia Experimental

Sara Graziano (IT)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Mixed Matters
From 17 - 19 October 2011 in Banyoles, Spain, the third international congress of experimental archeology took place, organized by the Asociacion Experimenta. Banyoles 2011 was a very intense conference, with over 50 speakers in three days, the quality of presentations was particularly high, as well as the presence of young, skilled and passionate researchers...

Conference Review: Reconstructive & Experimental Archaeology Conference REARC 2011

Mark Butler (US)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Mixed Matters
REARC Conferences
***The second annual Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference was held at the Schiele Museum of Natural History, Gastonia, NC, 16-17 October, 2011 and was attended by over 50 participants representing at least 10 states, two countries and an unknown number of general museum visitors...

Book Review: Experimental Archaeology by Alistair Marshall

Penny Cunningham (UK)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Mixed Matters

Experimental Archaeology: 1. Early Bronze Age Cremation Pyres. 2. Iron Age Grain Storage - the first thing that strikes the reader is that the book’s preface is missing leaving little understanding of the overall purpose of the book beyond the publication of two very different but significant experiments...

Conference Review: International Archaeological Conference, Trzcinica 2011

Tomasz Leszczyński (PL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Mixed Matters

The International Conference on archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology: An Opportunity for the Promotion of the Tourist Industry, sponsored financially by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, was held in the Carpathian Troy Open-Air Archaeological Museum in Trzcinica, Poland, on 9 – 10 June 2011...

Conference Review: 6th Experimental Archaeology Conference, York 2012

Ruth Fillery-Travis (UK)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Mixed Matters
EAC Conferences
*** Established in 2006 with a workshop at UCL London, the Experimental Archaeology Conference is an annual event aiming to bring together experimental practitioners from Europe and afield. Since 2006 it has been held at a variety of locations in England and Scotland...