43 years ago (1974) Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered Lucy. She was found near Hadar in Ethiopia at nearly 3.2 million years old. Lucy belonged to the extinct hominid species Austrolapithecus afarensis (Hadar being the site with the greatest number of remains) wide spread across Eastern Africa. Australopithecus afarensis …
Read More »The European Museum of the Year Award 2017: Museums of Southeastern Europe
Since 1977 the Council of Europe evaluates the success of the European museums with the European Museum of the Year Award. The award has been given to succssesful museums in the area of innovative realizations and in making distance from traditional views on museum function which more emphasises its own …
Read More »Committee on the Teaching and Training of Archaeologists practical skills training survey
The European Association of Archaeologists’s (EAA) CTTA is planning to discuss practical skills training in European Archaeology at its annual round table at the EAA 2016 conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. To prepare for this Round Table and to collect data on practical skills training provision in European Archaeology, we have …
Read More »The Forgotten Bridge near Čapljina
When a number of tourists, in their search for peace and nature, head to visit Herzegovinian Nature Park “Hutovo blato”, they go past the small bridge in Klepci, Čapljina. The bridge is one of the oldest examples of Ottoman architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, although the bridge is only …
Read More »International Archaeology Week
Every year the students of United World College Mostar instead of excursion like in our schools are organizing several projects in BiH and surrounding countries. This year incooperation with Archeological website arheon.net we have organized an Archaeology Project Week. It consisted out of few lectures, two fieldtrips and a workshop on …
Read More »3D – Stone Chairs – Ošanići
If you can’t open this you can try low resolution model:https://sketchfab.com/models/448bc38c769043169c9dd37dca19c348 Two stone chairs near the church of St. Peter and Paul in Ošanići. There are two inscriptions on the larger one. Under the rendering options in the lower right corner you can turn the Matcap on to get …
Read More »3D – Remains of Roman Monument from Mostar
3D – Dolia – Large Clay Jug From Roman Period
` Dolia – large clay jug from Roman period in which the oil was stored. From Mogorjelo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Picture:
Read More »Interview with Gustav Wollentz
At the moment, Gustav Wollentz, a PhD Candidate in Archaeology from the Graduate School of Human Development in landscapes, Kiel University (Germany) is doing a research project, and Mostar is taken as one of his case studies. Even though he is carrying out his PhD thesis in Germany, Gustav originally …
Read More »Save Cultural Heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Some of you may remember our Indigogo campaign from October last year. In the next 50 days we will be repeating it, but this time we will work really hard to get the word out. We also added a video to show all of you that cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina are neglected. …
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