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Throwing Stick to Spear Thrower - Study of Ethnographic Artefacts and Experimentation
EXARC Journal, 2020 Little is known about the process of the invention of the prehistoric spear thrower which appeared around 25,000 years ago in Europe, although it may have emerged earlier on other continents.
Luc Bordes
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Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2012
EXARC Journal, 2014 According to James Mathieu in 2002, experimental archaeology is “A subfield of archaeological research which employs a number of different methods, techniques, analyses and approaches within the context of a controllable imitative experiment to replicate
Thijs Hofland
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Trampling Experiments – A Contribution to the Pseudo-Retouch Issue
EXARC Journal, 2020 Stone tools can, apart from human-made retouch, exhibit traces of damage due to post depositional processes. As a result of post depositional factors, whether animal, human or natural in origin, this damage can sometimes be interpreted as human-made ...
Katarina Šprem +2 more
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EXARC Journal, 2014 This useful text brings together recent thinking about museum theatre and the performance of heritage, offering a range of international case studies to its readers as evidence of the discipline’s usefulness in interpreting the past for visitors ...
Kirsty Sullivan
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Experimental Research on the Neanderthal Musical Instrument from Divje Babe I Cave (Slovenia)
EXARC Journal, 2020 The supposition that an unusually perforated femur of a juvenile cave bear found at the Divje babe I Palaeolithic cave site in Slovenia could be a musical instrument led to heated debates.
Matija Turk, Giuliano Bastiani
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Conference Review: 9th Experimental Archaeology Conference, Dublin 2015
EXARC Journal, 2015 The ninth Experimental Archaeology Conference was held over 16-18 January 2015 at University College Dublin (Ireland). A large gathering of nearly 200 delegates from more than 25 countries across the EU and the Americas was hosted by UCD School of ...
Katy Whitaker
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Interview: "The Small Things Paint the Big Picture" with Harm Paulsen
EXARC Journal, 2015 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 ...
Wulf Hein
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Paleofestival: 10 Years of Spreading Archaeology in Evolution
EXARC Journal, 2016 At the age of thirty Edoardo started to study Archaeology for pleasure at the University of Genoa (Italy) while working as a computer programmer. Since then has taken part in archaeological excavations of prehistoric sites.
Edoardo Ratti, Donatella Alessi
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Twenty Years with Flint. The Society for Experimental Prehistoric Archaeology – Where are We Now?
EXARC Journal, 2017 The Society of Experimental Prehistoric Archaeology is an organisation affiliated with the Nicolaus Copernicus University’s Institute of Archaeology since 1998.
Grzegorz Osipowicz, Justyna Kuriga
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Beyond School - Workshops in Experimental Archaeology at the Museum (Romania)
EXARC Journal, 2018 Experimental archaeology, as an educational means, has become a particularly useful practice in museum institutions in Romania, although there is no tradition in this field. Here, we present activities of the History and Ethnography Museum in Târgu Neamţ,
Vasile Diaconu
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