Was it all worth it? Conference Review: Archaeological Reconstructions Between Science and Event

Abstract

On the 3 February 1990, as the Iron Curtain dropped and the border between Bavaria and Bohemia opened, three archaeologists from both countries met. One year later they managed to get 27 participants together and soon the archaeological working group East Bavaria, West- and South Bohemia (and latter also Upper Austria) was a fact. The working group was instrumental in getting colleagues together who had been separated for over a generation and has now become an important annual networking opportunity for colleagues from this triangle in Europe, recognised by all relevant archaeological institutes in this triangle.

Keywords

• conference
• (re)construction
• tourism
• neolithic
• chalcolithic
• bronze age
• iron age
• roman era
• early middle ages
• late middle ages
• germany
• review