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archaeology
is a source of information about the past; our own past, “the here and then” so to say. Who do we want to have been? And how do we “know” that? Archaeology provides us with information about |
| the daily life of the past, of ordinary people, but as well about the very high and very low class people. It is a kind of “monkey watching” and as well: “how did people live back then without electricity, without all the comforts we now have? Were they smarter because they were more inventive with the simple means they had? Or were people back then more backward because they hadn’t invented yet all those things we now ...?” |
| “Who do we want to have been” also counts for the public. We can understand each other better if we know our own backgrounds, also those of our parents and ancestors. Of course we live in the present and not in the past. We can’t relive the past at all, but we can learn from it. Often this is even fun, both for the young and old. The public is very often quite interested, because the past is something personal, something very near. And a presentation with a low threshold is in that case an excellent means to bring the past closer by. |
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| With Archeo Interface, Roeland Paardekooper would like to offer services in the field of archaeology and public. Roeland Paardekooper is an archaeologist and organiser. |
| He knows what it means to create a framework for others, to get accomplished what is requested. |
| He is inspired both in the Netherlands as abroad: he likes to watch across the borders of the Netherlands and likes working abroad. |
| Besides “archaeology & public” in general, Archeo Interface has developed expertise in archaeological architectural reconstructions or true scale models, founding (reconstructed) archaeological presentations in the open air and experimental archaeology in all its facets. Roeland Paardekooper for example once organised an international conference on iron smelting with 100 participants from 11 different countries. |
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NEWS: sstudy visits to archaeological open air museums
2009, Archeo Interface visited 25 archaeological open air museums, some from a tourist perspective others accompanying the manager to discuss problems and chances.
2010, Archeo Interface focuses on adult education in archaeological open air museums with among others visits to the Ukraine and Greece. |
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| Publicarchaeology.eu is a website with which I actually started already back in 2001. Those were the early years of EXARC and i started to structure my information from the Netherlands and abroad. My fields of interest are in archaeological architectural reconstructions, (reconstructed) archaeological presentations in the open air and experimental archaeology in all its facets. Part of this information derives from my PhD research at the University of Exeter into archaeological open air museums across Europe.
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| Over a year after the start of Archeo Interface, finally Publicarchaeology.eu could be launched. This international website is dedicated to archaeological open air museums, public archaeology as well as experimental archaeology. I have collected literature references on these subjects which you can browse through, images of archaeological open air museums from all across Europe as well as a presentation of each of these museums. You can search by keyword, country and in some cases also by language. The archaeological open air museums themselves you will be able to find too on the Google Map. |
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