EPILOGUE — Other Side of the Cannon: The Journal of an Arb Viking

Hear me now, for I will regale you with the harrowing tale of an Arb Viking. A poor soul, who when forced out of his home, looked to a world of the ancient past for guidance, who walked (and slept) in their footsteps for three days and nights. Listen close, and you will learn of…

Week 10 Experimental Archaeology Showcase Summary

By Jack Rizzo & Emmett Forster Introduction On the last day of class, Wednesday, May 29, we invited the Carleton community to join our class for an Experimental Archaeology Showcase to share what we had learned and created. From 2:00 to 3:00 pm, we welcomed those interested in the class to the Anderson Amphitheater (partially…

Week 10 “Lab” Data: Presentation Day

For our final week in class, we excitedly shared everything we had been working on over the past term with the broader campus community and others, including a local reporter who filmed the presentations. As this wasn’t quite a lab, per se, I instead recorded different data on how the wonderful folks who passed through…

Lab Group Data, Group F; Week 5, Spring 2024: Dyeing

During this lab, our guest, Alejandra Sanchez, returned to facilitate this lab, wherein we dyed the wool we learned how to spin in the prior lab, alongside other natural fibres, from yarn to human hair to shirts. In this lab, I was the data recorder for Group F, which consisting of myself, Gisele Nelson, and Elek Thomas-Toth. We were assigned a pot alongside another group. That group was tasked with only making a yellow dye by itself, which our two groups collectively did, as yellow marigold dye was an intermediary step to producing a green dye, which was what our group sought to do.