Lab Group Data – Page 13 – Experimental Archaeology / Experiential History

Group A Data Report – Week 9/10

For our final lab, we constructed an Anglo-Saxon mortuary house. Unfortunately, the weather gods abandoned us in our time of need––our scheduled lab was rained out, and as a result, we had to divide the process into four ~1 hour long blocks. Block One – Wednesday, May 26th Instructions: go into Lower Arb and collect…

Week 9/10 Group B Data

This data is a little bit strange because it is mainly observational and the data spans over 4 different class periods. I will break it up by day. Wednesday Week 9: Wood Collection The goal: collect 36-40 wattle poles, about an inch in diameter and 4-6′ long. Observations: It was pretty easy to find smaller…

Group F Week 9 Lab Data: Building

Wednesday, May 26: It was a beautiful day when my group ventured out to cut down willow for our house. We were assigned to an off-trail section of the Carleton arboretum that had a large deposit of willow. The goal was to collect 40 total branches, about three to six feet in length, to use…

Group A Lab Data

For our lab this week, we fired pots we made last week in kilns we constructed. The pots were made of “arb clay,” or clay extracted from the college’s arboretum, and from standard, regular clay that a beginner might work with due to its ease of handling. We were broken up into three groups to…

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…

Group F Week 8 Pottery Data

The week 8 lab was a two-day lab event that involved the firing of basic pots in a two stage camp fire and then another day for the fire to be smothered. This experiment was conducted as a joint operation with group E and our data should therefore be near identical. On the first day…

Week 8 Lab Data

This week’s lab was a continuation of week 7’s lab, during which we constructed clay pots out of both refined studio clay and less refine clay from the Carleton arboretum. Below is the data we collected and the procedure of the lab. Pot Measurements Side Thickness (in.) (Pre-fire/Post-fire) Diameter (in.) (Pre-fire/Post-fire) Height (in.) (Pre-fire/Post-fire) Weight…

Lab Data Week 8: Firing (Group B)

This week’s lab took place over a two-day period. On Thursday, we built fires and placed our pots from week 7’s lab on coals before covering them with more wood, letting that burn to ash, and then smothering our fire. On Friday, we returned to uncover our pots and see the results. Data was recorded…

Group C Lab Data: Week 8, Pottery Firing

Group C: Reed, Sam, Astrid, and Aubrey This week, we were able to fire our now bone-dry pots from last week’s lab in bonfires outside. Our main focus was the similarities between firing practices of pottery and cremation, keeping in mind the relationship these two practices may have had in the minds of premodern peoples,…

Week 7 Lab Group Data

Introduction: All lab groups met with Carleton ceramics professor Kelly Connole for a pottery-making workshop. Each individual had two types of clay – manufactured, “perfect” clay and unprocessed clay collected from the Carleton Arboretum. Starting as a powder, this was mixed with water to create a workable clay, with water or powder each being added…

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