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Event Review: LANCE, the Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event - Leiden, the Netherlands, 5 February 2026
LANCE, the Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event, was hosted on 5 February 2026 in the main hall of the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology. The event was intended as a means by which students could discover more about the professional world of archaeology by interacting with several companies, research institutions, and museums...
Event Review: Digital Storytelling Festival by Europeana 2026
The Digital Storytelling Festival 2026, organized by Europeana and held online on May 19–20, took place between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (Lisbon time/GMT). It brought together professionals, researchers, and creators connected to digital cultural heritage, with the aim of exploring innovative storytelling practices and the impact of emerging technologies on cultural mediation...
Event Review: PaleoFest, the Prehistory Festival – Montevarchi (Arezzo, Italy), 4–5 October 2025
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On Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October 2025, Montevarchi (Tuscany, province of Arezzo) hosted PaleoFest, the Prehistory Festival. The event was organized by the Montevarchi Paleontological Museum and the Accademia Valdarnese del Poggio, the institution that owns the museum.
Event Review: Experimental Archaeology in Denmark 2025
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The fifth annual meeting of Experimental Archaeology in Denmark (EAD) took place from 7 to 9 November 2025. This event followed previous meetings held at Ribe Vikingecenter, Middelaldercenteret, Bork Vikingehavn, and Vikingeborgen Trelleborg. The meeting serves as an opportunity for researchers, students, craftspeople, and others interested in experimental archaeology to meet and exchange ideas...
Event Review: Experimental Archaeology in Denmark 2024
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From the 8th to the 10th of November 2024, the Viking fortress Trelleborg welcomed researchers, students, and craftspeople for three days of celebrating experimental archaeology. This was the fourth annual meeting of “Eksperimentel Arkæologi i Danmark”(EAD) [Experimental Archaeology in Denmark], following the success of meetings at Ribe Vikingecenter...
Celebrating International Museum Day 2023... Internationally
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In order to celebrate International Museum Day 2023, I strived to make a change in a personal format to mark the occasion as being as international as possible. Back in the day, when I was working at Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, we marked the day as near as possible. Given that May was going to be too hot for comfort, we usually celebrated a month earlier...
Event Review: Archaeology Days in Kernave, 2023
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NGO "Chorna Galych", Ukraine, first visited Kernave in 2017; this was the second time the NGO participated in this event. The experience of this trip revealed to us new interesting aspects of cultural heritage interpretation methods and became an important starting point for changes in our own attitude to the matter. It was especially interesting to see how the festival and the reserve have changed.
Event Review: Experimental Archaeology in Denmark 2022
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Following up on the inception meeting back in November 2021 it was clear that a meeting opportunity for researchers, museum workers, craftspeople and practitioners in experimental archaeology was missing. A year later it was interesting to follow up on the forum to see if it was actual viable and if there was a desire to continue in its current form.
Event Review: Metallurgy Short Course at SHARP, 2022
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This year The Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) resumed its Introduction to Metallurgy course with a day-long class followed by metal casting demonstrations during its annual Open Day. It took place on July 16-17, 2022...
Event Review: 40 years of cooperation between the University of Vienna and MAMUZ
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The University of Vienna “Practice of Experimental Archaeology” course took place from June 30th to July 3rd at MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya. Under the guidance of their tutors, numerous students worked on the implementation of theoretical experiments that they had previously prepared and designed...