Newest Era
Conference Review: ”Green Museum Summit“ organised by MuseumNext
Ioannis Anastasakis
As a retired pilot, I enjoy studying history and especially mythology and pre-historic era. Using methods of "strategic analysis" I try to approach the truth of ancient people's way of life and their technology.
Event Review: NEMO Training Course 'Re-thinking Museum Practice for 21st Century Visitors' by Lisa Baxter from The Experience Business
Discussion: Inclusivity in historical interpretation: Who has access and who is erased?
Pilot fires: Preliminary Report from Interdisciplinary Actualistic Fire Experiments
Facilitated Dialogue: An Emerging Field of Museum Practice
Introduction
Almost 60 years ago, new museology’s call for a re-examination of the very identity of the museum, of its functions and purposes, brought forward its social role and signaled a major turn by initiating new areas of museum practice and research (Vergo, 1989). Since then, the relation of museums to their social, economic, and political environment has been the subject of many studies. Terms such as social and cultural inclusion, democratization and social responsibility are central in the current museological discourse.
Event Review: Experimental Archaeology in Denmark 2021
The meeting for Experimental Archaeology in Denmark (EAD) 2021 (Eksperimentel Arkæologi i Danmark) was held between the 5th and 7th of November 2021 at the Medieval Centre at Lolland in Denmark. The Medieval Centre focusses on living history in their museum with houses, staff, and volunteers recreating the environment of the time around the year 1395...
Ancient Technologies in Contexts of the Sustainable Development Goals
Five Case Studies of Clay Pot Irrigation and Earthquake Resistant Construction Technologies
Clay Pot Irrigation
Overview
Book Review: Technology and Experimentation in Archaeology by Sara Cura et al.
Are chaîne opératoire, technology, and experimental protocols and methodology keywords to your research interests? Technology and Experimentation in Archaeology provides international perspectives and excellent case studies on those very subjects...