Em – Experimental Archaeology / Experiential History

DATA REPORT WEEK 9: Group D

This week, we constructed a set of surveying tools and proceed to use them in measuring and surveying various areas around campus. The groma, a set of weights suspended from an X-shaped set of bars, was used to make straight lines and right angles, a very useful thing in charting roads, foundations, and other such…

WEEK 8: TACTICS

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LAB SUMMARY WEEK 6: Tracta, Alica, and Catonian Breadstuffs

Morgan Dieschbourg, Dylan Fox-Arnold, and Em Jahn Introduction: This week, our class set about analyzing Cato’s description of traditional bread-making techniques in De Agricultura (a text from 165 BCE) through experimental archaeology on Carleton College’s Mai Fete Island. Specifically, we looked at six different bread-and-cheese-based recipes outlined in the text: placenta, spira, scriblita, erneum, globi,…

Author: Em