Week 4: Metal Casting and More
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Lab Journal 4: Metal casting
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Highlighting the Importance of Experimental Archaeology: Adventures in Burning Meat
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Week 4: Ritual Fire
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Lab Summary Week 4: Ritual Fire
John Hoffman, Helen Murphy, and Sam Wege Introduction This week, our lab had two separate but related focuses. We experimentally analyzed the methodology of two rituals: 1. Greek sacrifice of bovine femurs and tails and 2. Anglo-Saxon cremation rites. The goal of the study of Greek sacrifice was to recreate an ancient practice based off…
Week 4: Ritual Fire
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Lab Week 4: Ritual Fire & Sacrifice
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Week 4: Ritual Fire – Group E Data
Group 1 Bovine Femur and Tail Together 0min: 00sec femur and tail placed on fire 1:00 lots of smoke. tail starts moving wrong way 2:00 tail has moved really far wrong way. fire starting to get bigger 3:50 wind pushing fire over, but 3 feet of flame from fire 6:00 Jake flips over our tail…
Week 4: Rituals with Fire – Group A Data
This week, Group A worked with Austin and Group D on investigating early English cremation rites with linen-wrapped pork shoulders. We were comparing the arguments of Calvin Wells and Jackie McKinley over the shape of the pyre and position of our “bodies.” Before: The first steps in this process were to weigh our pork shoulders…
Week 4 Lab Data: Group B
Introduction: Group B worked at Firepit #1 with Group F to burn a bovine femur wrapped twice in omentum, a bovine tail, a lamb femur wrapped twice in omentum, and two sets of splanchna from a lamb on an open fire pit. Each set of splanchna contained 1 heart, 1 liver, and 2 kidneys. Femurs…
