Lab Group Data – Experimental Archaeology / Experiential History

Week 10: ExARC Showcase Data

This final week of the term represented the culmination of all our hard work this Spring: we held an Experimental Archaeology Showcase. We had eight different stations, each manned by the pairs who did the lab summary for their respective weeks. So, myself and Julia were at the woodworking station, because we did the lab…

WEEK 10 DATA REPORT: Show-and-Tell

Instead of having our normal Thursday lab, on Wednesday of Week 10 we had a Show and Tell where the guest artists from earlier in the term and passerby professors and students were invited to see what we’d been working on in class. Each of the eight labs was presented by the pair that had…

Week 10 “Lab” Data: Presentation Day

For our final week in class, we excitedly shared everything we had been working on over the past term with the broader campus community and others, including a local reporter who filmed the presentations. As this wasn’t quite a lab, per se, I instead recorded different data on how the wonderful folks who passed through…

Week 10 Data Reporting

This week, we did not have an official lab session as it was the last week of classes. However, on our last day of classes, Wednesday May 29th, 2024, we hosted an Experimental Archeology showcase in the outdoor Anderson Hall Ampitheatre. At this gathering, I worked alongside Hope Yu to talk about our cremation lab…

Week 9 Group A Data

This week we made turf walls in the style of Icelandic turf houses. My group, A was building end course blocks in a triangle wedge shape. Our blocks are oriented with the grass facing horizontally, not vertically, as we want the grass to be smothered by the dirt and not grow in our walls. We…

Week 9 Data: Group B

For this week’s lab, we set out to make a structure out of turf, one which would be large enough to hold up our tent we made in week 8 and one that could act as benches upon which we could sit on inside of the tent. The purpose of this activity was to replicate…

GROUP D WEEK 9 LAB DATA: TURF BUILDING

This week in lab, we built turf walls to combine with the previous week’s wood tent, to recreate a traditional Icelandic booth (“tjald-buo”). We constructed our turf from a few different styles of block or strip, and my group, D, made Glumbauer blocks to build one of the longer walls. These were a longer style…

Week 9: Turf Building Data Group E

This week we did turf building, or creating some walls for our tent using sections of turf. My group was in charge of making milk-pen blocks of turn, which were rectangles that were supposed to be about 6 inches wide by 12 inches long and about three inches deep. Cutting out the first block was…

Week 9: Turf-Building Data Report, Group C

On Thursday of Week 9, our Experimental Archaeology/Experiential History class worked on reconstructing an Icelandic-style turf building. In our previous lab, we constructed the Viking-era tent and this week we will be recreating the “booth” upon which we will place our tent. We experienced different construction methods, with different groups using different types of turf…

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