Lab Journal 8: Tactics
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Lab Summary Week 8: Tactics
Introduction This week in Experimental Archaeology, we learned about ancient Greek and Roman military tactics by recreating ancient battle equipment and army formations on the Mini Bald Spot. Before lab, we read about the different tactics of the Greek hoplites, Greek phalanxes, and Roman maniples. In a hoplite, soldiers stood close together with interlocking shields…
Group A Tactics Data
This week’s lab was very much focused on the experiential side of things, as we were trying to asses the battle formations of the hoplite, the phalanx and the maniple in three very qualitative metrics: the time needed to learn the basic functions within the formation, the feeling of safety within the formation, and whether…
Week 8: Group D Tactics Lab Data
Group D: Ann Beimers, Will Brewster, Em Jahn, Morgan Dieschbourg For this week’s lab on tactics, collective involvement in the various types of movement and action was key in gaining insight into ancient Greek and Roman military formations. Initial questions: How fast is the learning curve? In a group, can we accomplish all three tactics:…
Data Report Week 8: Tactics
Our research questions: Formation 1: the greek hoplite Equipment: Description of formation: Notes on the formation in action: Formation 2: the phalanx (mass transition to this tactic in 338 BC) Equipment: Description of formation: Notes on the formation in action: Formation 3: the roman maniple Equipment: Description of formation: Notes on the formation in action:…
Group F Week 8 Data Collection: Tactics
This week’s experiment into ancient military formations ended up being much more experiential than it was experimental. The questions we were investigating, such as the learning curve for each formation and ease of tactics or holding positions, are quite subjective metrics to try to quantify and so we generally asked ourselves how we were feeling…
Tactics Lab Reflection
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Week 8 Lab Journal: Ancient Warfare
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Lab Reflection: Tactics
This past lab featured one of the more unconventional practices we have endeavored in (which is surprising to an extent). We marched throughout the mini-bald spot in three different formations ranging from the Greek Hoplite formation, the Greek Phalanx and the Roman legionary formation. This was perhaps the weirdest lab to approach as I could…
