The Great ArcheoScience Fest – Science Market Programme




The Great ArchaeoScience Fest

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Within the castle walls, but out on the field, a world opens up for you! Because alongside the music stage and food trucks, there's all sorts to see and experience. You can taste, look, feel, smell AND participate, all with a science link, of course.
The following organisations will be presenting:

Beeswax – Yvonne van Amerongen & Liesbeth Theunissen
The importance of beeswax throughout the centuries and varied applications of beeswax

Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen
An introduction to the radiocarbon dating laboratory

Digital Apamea – Adam Blitz
Applying digital technologies to recreate the 4th century AD Byzantine tessellated synagogue floor from Apamea, Syria

Dutch Centre for Luminescence Dating, Wageningen University & Research
Everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, about luminescence dating

Netherlands Association for Physical Anthropology (NVFA)
Professional association in an important science field makes itself heard – and seen

Before
Reconstructions of archaeological textiles and beauty products from antiquity – based on science, of course

RAAP
3D modelling and 3D printing, digital reconstruction drawings, story map projects, Odile database and botanical research

Saricon
Geophysical survey with a range of sensors (GPR, MAG, EMI, RES etc…), and the magnetometer data on which the reconstruction of the castellum is based

Klaas Hennepoel Shipyard
Working on/with Roman ships and tools & restoration and reconstruction of traditional Dutch ships from the 17th–19th century

Roman Fort at the Rhine - Julia Chorus Exhibition
Research and Public Project Castellum Utrecht-De Meern (this fort!) – with science components

Continuing with Food
Gastronomic delights from the Further with Food group








 






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