For this week’s lab, we made the frame of a viking tent out of trees from the arb. Under the tutelage of Maeve Gathje, we got to experience each step within the process of transitioning a tree to pieces of timber. The total lab took us approximately five hours, given the four hour lab and…
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…
Groups C&D Lab Data: Week 8 (Woodworking)
On Thursday, May 16 and Friday, May 17 of Week 8, our Experimental Archaeology/Experiential History course reconstructed the Viking-era tent found at the Oseberg archaeological site. This week, we focused on constructing the wooden supports of the tent, and we will experiment with the feasibility of creating turf walls for the tent to craft the…
Week 8 Group F Lab Data: Woodworking
Introduction: Given that this week was far more about working to construct the tent and we were all occupied for all of the 4-hour lab time, there was not a very large amount of data I was able to record. Most of the data in this post will be the 60% measurements of each of…
Week 8: Wood Carving
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Week 8 Lab Journal: Woodworking and Tents
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Week 8 Group B Data
This week in lab, we reconstructed a Viking-era tent using local aspen and traditional tools, with help from expert Maeve Gathje. This was a difficult lab to gather data from. That being said I was able to record how much time it took to complete certain steps in the process of preparing the wood. Firstly,…
Week 8 Lab Journal: Woodworking and Tent-making
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Week 8 Woodworking
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