Peer Reviewed Articles

Becker, Ruby, and Helen Banta. 2025. “Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds.” EXARC Journal, no. 2025/3 (November). https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10812.

Morton, Jake, Ruby Becker, and Helen Banta. 2025. “Resurrecting a Bog Dress: A Comparative Approach to Medieval Textile Construction.” EXARC Journal, no. 2025/1 (March). https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10783.

Morton, Jake. 2024. “From the Butcher’s Knife to God’s Ears. The Leg and Tail in Greek Sacrifice.” In From Snout to Tail. Exploring the Greek Sacrificial Animal from the Literary, Epigraphical, Iconographical, Archaeological, and Zooarchaeological Evidence, 1st ed., edited by Jan-Mathieu Carbon and Gunnel Ekroth, vol. 60. Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 4°. Swedish Institute at Athens. https://doi.org/10.30549/actaath-4-60-02.

Mason, Austin. 2024. “How to Build a Cremation Pyre: Insights from Experimental Archaeology.” In Cremation in the Early Middle Ages. Death, Fire and Identity in North-West Europe, edited by Howard Williams and Femke Lippok. Sidestone Press. https://doi.org/10.59641/e3h9b0c1d2.

Morton, Jake, and Ellen Schlick. 2024. “An Experimental Approach to Baking Ancient Roman Placenta.” EXARC Journal, no. 2024/2 (June). https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10749.

Morton, Jake, Nicholas G. Blackwell, and Kyle W. Mahoney. 2023. “Sacrificial Ritual and the Palace of Nestor: A Reanalysis of the Ta Tablets.” American Journal of Archaeology 127 (2): 167–87. https://doi.org/10.1086/723242.

Morton, Jake, and Austin Mason. 2022. “Launching an Experimental Archaeology Course at the Undergraduate Level.” EXARC Journal, no. 2022/4 (December). https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10666.

Conference Presentations

Mason, Austin. “Teaching and Learning about Early Medieval Textiles through Experimental Archaeology,” Textilian Worlds of Learning between 450 and 1400 CE: Teaching and Learning Panel at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK (July 2025).

Mason, Austin. “Teaching Cultural Complexity through Experimental Archaeology of Composite Artifacts,” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, New Orleans, LA (April 2024).

Mason, Austin. “Teaching the Premodern: Medieval Material Culture at a Midwestern Small Liberal Arts College,” Premodern Workshop Regional Colloquium, Center for Premodern Studies, University of Minnesota (February 2022).

Mason, Austin. “Transformation by Fire: An Experimental Archaeology Approach to Pottery and Cremation in Early Medieval England,” International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England Conference, Montréal (June 2021).  

Morton, Jake. “Experimental Archaeology and Original Undergraduate Research,” Society for Classical Studies annual meeting, San Francisco, CA (January 2026).

Morton, Jake. “Using Experimental Archaeology to Teach about Ancient Military Technology,” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, New Orleans, LA (April 2024).

Morton, Jake. “The Headless Tables of Pylos Ta 715,” Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting (January 2022).

Morton, Jake. “An Experimental Approach to Teaching about Ancient Shepherds,” Premodern Workshop Regional Colloquium, Center for Premodern Studies, University of Minnesota (February 2022).