EXARC Newsletter, Number 2018/11

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#EAC11 - Join us this Spring in Italy

The 11th international Experimental Archaeology Conference #EAC11 (2-4 May, 2019) will be EXARCs largest event in two years.

We already accepted over 25 papers and posters.
We have an important keynote: Ed Carriere & Dale Croes from North America will speak about Re-Awakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry on the Northwest Coast of North America: A Generationally-Linked Archaeology Approach.
The second call for papers is open until 15th January 2019.
Registration is open, starting from 85 EUR.

More information on EAC

Twinning - apply now

EXARC has a new and special project: twinning members from various countries into small cooperation projects. We have 1,250 EUR for each set of twinned members, apply before 1 December 2019. Archaeology proves there have always been many connections over longer distances: people, artefacts and ideas have often found fertile soil elsewhere in the world. EXARC wants to highlight a few of these cases where somebody or something had a large influence in another region in the world.

Contact us if you need help in finding a twinning partner.

More information on Twinning

EXARC Journal Digest 2018 issue 2 coming soon!

In the Digest we hope to show off the wide range of topics the Journal covers. After long deliberation, and it has not been easy to choose from so many interesting articles, we chose six reviewed articles covering topics from reconstruction of prehistoric clothing for museum display through building and testing a traction trebuchet to a recreation of Earth ovens with clay heat retainers or mirnyongs, which were typical of the temperate environments of eastern and south-eastern Australia. Another seven articles represent the mixed matters in which we remember the late Peter Kelterborn, introduce Kernavė in Lithuania and learn about archaeology workshops for schools in Romania.

EXARC travelling

EXARC and its members were present at several conferences over the past months:

Spain:
EAA Session: What we are learning from Experimental Archaeology

Lithuania:
Archaeology for the People: Exhibition, Experience and Performance

Poland:
Archaeological Open-Air Museums: Reconstruction and Reenactment – Reality or Fiction?

USA:
the 8th Conference on Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology (REARC)

EXARC is the ICOM Affiliated Organisation representing archaeological open-air museums, experimental archaeology, ancient technology and interpretation. EXARC raises the standard of scientific research and public presentation among our membership through collaborative projects, conferences and publications.