carolinegans – Experimental Archaeology / Experiential History

Week 9 Group F Data Report: Turf Building

This was, admittedly, not the optimal week for me to be data reporter since I left the lab early, but in the time I was there, I recorded what I could! This was mainly observational/qualitative data, and does not lend itself to graphical summaries. The first thing I observed was the size of our blocks.…

Group D Cremation Lab Data Report

During this week’s cremation lab, Group D’s focus was on firing our pots in the actual funeral pyre! Before diving into the quantitative data which I collected throughout this process, I will include some (rudimentary) illustrations I made of the pyre’s composition, displaying the step-by-step process of how we built it and how we positioned…

Lab Summary Week 3: Pottery

Introduction Our second lab was a venture into making pottery inspired by Early Medieval English techniques. After the fall of the Roman empire, many communities in England turned away from mass production and wheel usage in their creation of pottery. As we learned in our readings for the week, there was no longer a need…

Week 2 Lab Data [Group D]: Cheese-Making

Throughout my group’s cheese-making process, we recorded data concerning fire-temperature, whey temperature, yield and waste by volume, and the time at which all these data were procured. Our process began with placing 3.61 kg (or one gallon) of whole milk into a cauldron. We created a fire, which at 13:30, the time at which we…

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