Max Serota – Experimental Archaeology / Experiential History

Our class inside the completed booth and tent.

Lab Summary Week 9: Turf Building

By Evan Orjala and Max Serota Introduction Early Icelandic Viking settlers encountered an environment that lacked the materials traditionally used for housing in their native Scandinavia; Iceland’s relatively young landscape lacked large forests with wood with which to build the walls and roofs of permanent shelters, nor was its volcanic rock suitable for building sturdy…

Week 9 Lab Journal

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Week 8 Group C Data

Gathering comprehensive data for the lab this week was somewhat difficult given its experimental nature. Constructing the tent within the four hour lab also meant that we had to prioritize building the tent and its various components over collecting data for each step of the process. That said, data related to the size of various…

Week 8: Wood Carving

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Week 7: Blacksmithing and Nails

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Week 6: Fires and Pyres

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Group A Dyeing Data

This week we experimented with dying processes. My group, group A, dyed our wool using dried marigolds. Additionally, as a class we dyed wool using dried and processed natural indigo pigment. General data about the dyes and wool can be found below. Dye Mordant Dye Mass Water Weight Wool Mass Thread Size Water pH Indigo…

Lab Journal: Week 5 Dyeing

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Week 4: Wool – Group B Data

I was the lab data recorder for group B this week. Collecting quantitative data for every step of the wool production process was somewhat difficult. The varying skill levels each group member had with spinning and weaving may make comparison or generalization from quantitative data related to such higher skill steps less useful than data…

Week 4: Wool Making

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Author: Max Serota