I was the lab data recorder for group B this week. Collecting quantitative data for every step of the wool production process was somewhat difficult. The varying skill levels each group member had with spinning and weaving may make comparison or generalization from quantitative data related to such higher skill steps less useful than data…
As group D data recorder, I particularly focused on taking notes on the speed of each activity to attempt to understand how much time would have been required to process a particular quantity of wool in the ancient world. Spinning We began the initial spinning with 0.5 ounces of wool per person. Without any wool…
Introduction: For this week’s pottery lab, my group (Group A) was tasked with creating our pottery with a temper that consisted of mostly gravel and sand, with only a very small amount of chaff. The exact and ideal proportions that our group tried to use was as follows: 500g clay, 80g sand, 19g gravel, 1g…