Group 1 Bovine Femur and Tail Together 0min: 00sec femur and tail placed on fire 1:00 lots of smoke. tail starts moving wrong way 2:00 tail has moved really far wrong way. fire starting to get bigger 3:50 wind pushing fire over, but 3 feet of flame from fire 6:00 Jake flips over our tail…
Week 4: Rituals with Fire – Group A Data
This week, Group A worked with Austin and Group D on investigating early English cremation rites with linen-wrapped pork shoulders. We were comparing the arguments of Calvin Wells and Jackie McKinley over the shape of the pyre and position of our “bodies.” Before: The first steps in this process were to weigh our pork shoulders…
Week 4 Lab Data: Group B
Introduction: Group B worked at Firepit #1 with Group F to burn a bovine femur wrapped twice in omentum, a bovine tail, a lamb femur wrapped twice in omentum, and two sets of splanchna from a lamb on an open fire pit. Each set of splanchna contained 1 heart, 1 liver, and 2 kidneys. Femurs…
Week 4: Ritual Fire Lab Data (Group D)
Introduction Our group gathered on Mai Fete Island on a windy spring afternoon to investigate early English cremation rites. We burned a pork shoulder (our stand-in body) to test at what temperature the flesh would burn away, and to assess whether placing bodies on or under the funeral pyres is more successful (competing arguments proposed…
Group F Lab Data – Week 4
Group F participated in the sacrificial ritual section of the lab. We worked closely with Group B (our data should be quite similar) to investigate the performance of rites at the altar. Over the course of three hours, we were able to burn two bovine femurs wrapped in fat, one wrapped lamb femur, one unwrapped…
