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Lab Summary Week 4: Ritual Fire

John Hoffman, Helen Murphy, and Sam Wege Introduction This week, our lab had two separate but related focuses. We experimentally analyzed the methodology of two rituals: 1. Greek sacrifice of bovine femurs and tails and 2. Anglo-Saxon cremation rites. The goal of the study of Greek sacrifice was to recreate an ancient practice based off…

Week 3 Lab Summary: Grain

Reed Culverwell, Eryk Jones, and Liv Patinkin Introduction While the original forecast on April 15th, 2021 in Northfield, Minnesota called for cold and rain, the ARCN 222 class was met with only wind on Mai Fete Island for our second lab of the term. Still on the topic of food, and rather optimistic from our…

Week 2 Cheesemaking Lab Summary

Intro On a blustery April afternoon, the ARCN 222 class trekked down to Mai Fete Island to engage in our very first experimental archaeology lab: making cheese. We were armed with knowledge from across centuries of cheesemaking, from early 20th century ethnographies on Greek and Albanian shepherds to food preservation techniques in ancient Egypt to…

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