Week 9/10: SFB Construction
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Group E Pottery Firing
In this lab our combined group of 8 came together to attempt a bonfire firing of 17 pots made from a variety of clay bodies that we formed and dried over the past week. We selected 4 of those pots for specific attention and data gathering: two made from a pure clay dust and two…
Week 8 Bonfire Firing Pottery
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Week 7: Pottery Formation
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Week 6: Cordage and Basketry
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Week 5: Spinning and Wool
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Week 4: Fire
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Group A Data: Alica and Globuli
Our group tried our hands at six different bread products made with alica starch as its primary ingredient. Alica is a paste made by grinding soaked farro grains over the course of two to three days. For this lab our instructor soaked the grain throughout the week, changing the water two to three times a…
Week 3 Lab Journal: Alica Bread
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Week 2 Cheesemaking Lab Summary
Intro On a blustery April afternoon, the ARCN 222 class trekked down to Mai Fete Island to engage in our very first experimental archaeology lab: making cheese. We were armed with knowledge from across centuries of cheesemaking, from early 20th century ethnographies on Greek and Albanian shepherds to food preservation techniques in ancient Egypt to…
