Whisper with us!

Everyone has probably played the Chinese Whispers (know also as Broken Telephone) game where a sentence or phrase is whispered to the next player. We experiment with this game in completely different way.

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‘Making the Bronze Age’: a review of the session held at the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, University of Bristol, 17th – 19th November 2010.

More than 600 delegates assembled in the magnificent neo-gothic Wills Memorial building in Bristol where the majority of the 28 sessions took place. The session ‘Making the Bronze Age: craft and craftspeople 2500-800BC’ was held in the beautiful setting of the Old Council Chamber. Support had kindly been provided by the Prehistoric Society and the HERA-funded project Creativity and Craft Production in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (CinBA). Continue reading

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CinBA meeting in Southampton

Meeting in SouthamptonIn mid december we hold the second two-day project meeting in Southampton. Several interesting papers were presented and interesting ideas discussed.

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Prehistoric Clothing between Identity and Creativity

Workshop for the study project “Hallstatt – Textiles” with textile art students on October, 15th 2010 in Schloss Halbturn – Palace Halbturn.
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CinBA textile researchers are holding a workshop in Vienna

CinBA textile researchers are holding a workshop on Friday 26th November 2010 at the Natural History Museum, Vienna. The event, in collaboration with Project Hall Impact (Natural History Museum Vienna), Project HallTex FWF (University of Applied Arts) and the EU-funded DressID Project, will bring together investigators to discuss the textiles from the important site of Hallstatt in Austria.
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Live Project Opportunity for Students in Contemporary Crafts Subjects

The CinBA Project Team are offering selected HEIs and FEIs teaching contemporary craft subjects the opportunity to engage students in a live project exploring Bronze Age artefacts from the perspective of contemporary craft practice. Supported by the Crafts Council, this is an exciting collaboration offering new ways of articulating practice-based research in the crafts in an inter-disciplinary and international arena.

The deadline for expressions of interest is 30th November 2010.

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Bronze Age Craft at the 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Conference 2010

Theoretical Archaeology Conference

Members of the CinBA project will run a session on Bronze Age Craft at the 32nd Annual Theoretical Archaeology Conference to be held in Bristol 17th-19th Dec 2010. The session is entitled “Making the Bronze Age: craft and craftspeople 2500-800BC”. You can find the abstract from the conference website.

The session will also be open to people outside CinBA. There is an on-line submission system for abstracts which notifies session organisers when a paper has been proposed.

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CinBA Project at the HERA launch conference

Members of CinBA participated in the HERA launch conference 23rd-24th June 2010. Jo Sofaer presented the CinBA project and delegates took the opportunity to meet with members of other HERA Creativity initiatives.

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First meeting

First project meeting was held in Southampton at 1st and 2nd of June.

First project meeting

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Project launch

CinBA project was launched on 1st of June at University of Southampton Archaeology Department.

Project members at Archaeology Department's Atrium

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