Spring24 – Experimental Archaeology / Experiential History

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 DATA REPORT: Show-and-Tell

Instead of having our normal Thursday lab, on Wednesday of Week 10 we had a Show and Tell where the guest artists from earlier in the term and passerby professors and students were invited to see what we’d been working on in class. Each of the eight labs was presented by the pair that had…

Our class inside the completed booth and tent.

Lab Summary Week 9: Turf Building

By Evan Orjala and Max Serota Introduction Early Icelandic Viking settlers encountered an environment that lacked the materials traditionally used for housing in their native Scandinavia; Iceland’s relatively young landscape lacked large forests with wood with which to build the walls and roofs of permanent shelters, nor was its volcanic rock suitable for building sturdy…

Week 9 Lab Journal

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Week 9 Lab Journal: Turf Building

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WEEK 9 LAB JOURNAL: Turfbuilding

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Week 8 Group E Lab Data

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…

Week 8 Group C Data

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…

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