Week 8 Lab Summary: Woodworking

By Elie Lewin, Hazel Wright, Shemsy Lewis-Mussa Introduction This week, we built the foundation and support structure for a mortuary house. Austin has theories about the way mortuary houses would have been constructed, and this lab was designed to test a few of those theories. The archaeological evidence provided was a rectangular house foundation with…

Week 6 Data Collection (Firing) – Group E

Group E and Group F worked on the same fire. Time of Day Time  Pot Temp (celcius) Notes 1:37 0:00 20.5 Fire started, pots unwarmed 1: 47 0:10 817363 Arb clay potReg clay potLoom weight 1:57 0:20 637244 2:07 0:30 659766 2:17 0:40 8487138 Moved pots closer, broke one data tablet 2:27 0:50 97150151 2:37…

Lab Group A- Week 4 Data (Wool)

Data collecting for wool week was a little less numerical, and quite a bit more qualitative. Things such as different wool types were definitively “vibes-based”. Data Carding Group A started with carding, where we carded with modern carders and hackles. There was a general ability to card more wool with the hackles, as more wool…