Week 9 Turf Building
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Week 8 Group B Data
This week in lab, we reconstructed a Viking-era tent using local aspen and traditional tools, with help from expert Maeve Gathje. This was a difficult lab to gather data from. That being said I was able to record how much time it took to complete certain steps in the process of preparing the wood. Firstly,…
Week 8 Woodworking
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Week 7 Blacksmithing Lab
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Week 6 Cremation and Pottery Firing
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Week 5 Lab: Dyeing
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Group C Lab Data: Dyeing
In this week’s lab, group C participated in two dyeing procedures. With the full class, we dyed wool in indigo, and as a group (along with group D) we dyed wool in logwood. Indigo For this process, Alejandra combined approximately 5 gallons of warm water, sodium hydrosulfite as a reducing agent, and soda ash as…
Week 4 Wool Lab
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Week 4 Wool Lab Group D Data
As group D data recorder, I particularly focused on taking notes on the speed of each activity to attempt to understand how much time would have been required to process a particular quantity of wool in the ancient world. Spinning We began the initial spinning with 0.5 ounces of wool per person. Without any wool…
Week 3 Lab: Pottery
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