Spring24_Week3 – Experimental Archaeology / Experiential History

Lab Summary Week 3: Pottery

Introduction Our second lab was a venture into making pottery inspired by Early Medieval English techniques. After the fall of the Roman empire, many communities in England turned away from mass production and wheel usage in their creation of pottery. As we learned in our readings for the week, there was no longer a need…

Week 3 Lab Group D Data

Process: To create the clay that we ultimately used to scuplt the pots, we mixed 500g of art clay, 80g of sand, 16g of gravel, and 4g of chaff. The original plan was to use hay as chaff, but it was difficult to get down to a small size. So, I used hay and my…

Week 3 Group A Lab Data: Pottery

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…

Group E Lab Data: Week 3 (Pottery)

Process: Our group’s process was rather different than the other groups’ because we were using clay from the Carleton Arboretum, gathered by geology and pottery students at Carleton, rather than the mass-produced combination clay used in most modern pottery studios. We began by first grinding arb clay that had been dried for months, and perhaps…

Week 3 Lab Journal: Pottery

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Week 3 Lab Journal: Pottery (w/o much chaff!)

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Week 3 Lab Journal: Pottery

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Pottery Group F member, Hope Yu holding clay in preparation to make a pot

Lab Group Data, Group F Week 3: Pottery

Introduction Each group consisted of three members. Our group – Group F – consisted of the same members as last week: Jack Rizzo, Hope Yu, and me, Ashton Macklin. While each team was given different ratios of components to incorporate into their clays, each individual had to make a clay pot using the given clay…

Week 3 Lab Journal: Pottery

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Week 3 Lab: Pottery

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