By Siddharth Srinivasan and Julia Tassava Word Definition adze like an axe, but its blade is perpendicular to instead of parallel with the handle chaîne opératoire the systematic order in which an item, tool, or artifact is constructed chest brace drill a traditional-style drill used for boring holes in wood (see Fig 8) draw knife…
For this week’s lab, we made the frame of a viking tent out of trees from the arb. Under the tutelage of Maeve Gathje, we got to experience each step within the process of transitioning a tree to pieces of timber. The total lab took us approximately five hours, given the four hour lab and…
Introduction Week 8, over Thursday, May 16, and Friday, May 17, our class built a reconstruction of the Viking-era tent discovered at the Oseberg archaeological site, scaled down to 60%. This reconstruction process took approximately three and a half hours on Thursday and an additional hour on Friday. The following report details the data of…
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…
On Thursday, May 16 and Friday, May 17 of Week 8, our Experimental Archaeology/Experiential History course reconstructed the Viking-era tent found at the Oseberg archaeological site. This week, we focused on constructing the wooden supports of the tent, and we will experiment with the feasibility of creating turf walls for the tent to craft the…