Students working with the horizontal saw.

Week 9 Lab Summary: Bronze Age Saws

Tara Green, Zoe Roettger, and Clark Glymph Introduction Our experiments involved testing out full scale, working models of pendulum saws, evidence of which is found in masonry remains primarily in Mycenae, during the height palatial period (1370-1190 BC). Modeled after the three types of cuts left on these masonry remains—cuts in the ground, horizontal ones,…