Week 9 Lab Journal: Turf Construction
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Week 8 Group A Lab Data
For this week’s lab, we made the frame of a viking tent out of trees from the arb. Under the tutelage of Maeve Gathje, we got to experience each step within the process of transitioning a tree to pieces of timber. The total lab took us approximately five hours, given the four hour lab and…
Week 8 Lab Journal: Woodworking
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Week 7 Lab Data: Group E
The aim of our week 7 lab was to create nails and roves in accordance with historical practices. That being said, this week’s data was a bit difficult to measure for me as my group ended up with three people and thus we all had tasks to do to keep the process going. I was…
Week 7 Lab Journal: I made a nail
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Lab Summary Week 6: Cremation & Pottery Firing
By Alex Wilson and Hope Yu Introduction For our sixth lab of the term, we constructed a funeral pyre to test medieval practices of cremation while also firing our early medieval English clay pots from lab three. This lab tended toward the experimental as much of Professor Austin’s research revolves around Anglo-Saxon medieval cremation and…
Week 6 Lab Journal: Funeral Pyre & Pottery
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Week 5 Lab Journal: Mass Dyeing!!
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Week 4 Wool Lab Data – Group F
As others have mentioned, I too found it difficult to collect quantitative data from this lab. I felt like I had to contend with the intense focus and physical taxation required to participate in each station. Moreover, each group member was not exactly participating in the same manner as some spent longer weaving and others…
Week 4 Lab: Carding, Spinning, & Weaving Wool
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