Obituary: Janis Apals (17 September 1930 - 21 February 2011)

Abstract

With Jānis Apals, who died at the age of 80 after a short illness, the international world of experimental archaeology looses a valued friend and colleague. EXARC remembers Jānis Apals as an energetic archaeologist, standing strong for his ideas and always willing to explain about the beauty of Latvia and, very importantly, its wonderful past as revealed through archaeology.

Keywords

• experimental archaeology
• archaeological open-air museum
• construction of building
• education
• lake dwelling
• tourism
• mesolithic
• early middle ages
• late middle ages
• latvia