Week 9 Lab Data Group D: Mortuary House Roof

Jacob Forster Rothbart // Group D Concise version: North side of roof consists of 7 sets of purlins and 4 overlapping courses of hay thatch, not including the thatch over the ridge line. Thatch layer was ~6 inches thick. Mildly verbose version: In this lab, Group D constructed the northern side of the mortuary house’s…

Week 8 Lab Summary: Woodworking

By Elie Lewin, Hazel Wright, Shemsy Lewis-Mussa Introduction This week, we built the foundation and support structure for a mortuary house. Austin has theories about the way mortuary houses would have been constructed, and this lab was designed to test a few of those theories. The archaeological evidence provided was a rectangular house foundation with…