Experimental Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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Description of the project prior to the group's visit to Butser.
The Butser Ancient Farm Research Project (1976)
Experimental archaeology can be sensibly claimed to be fundamental to the progress of archaeological thought and practice. Especially is this so with relation to prehistory and excation technique. In fact, experimenta have been conducted for as long as archaeology has bee npreactised but it is only relatviely recently that the experiemtns have been subjected to rigorouse scientific controls. as a general description experimental archaeology is an umbrella term likst geography fo even archaeolgy...
Butser Ancient Farm Research Project - a Unique Experiment in World Archaeology (1978)
This article reports of the Conference in which P. Reynolds presents the idea of connecting archaeological evidence with experimental archaeology to increase the understanding and scientific approaches, as well as their outcomes for future research. He represents the Butser Ancient Farm Research Project in which he explains several projects: Reynolds talks about agriculture, like wheat spelt, barley and oats, and also opium poppy seeds and caraway as ingredients of the Iron Age life. But also...
Butser Ancient Farm: A Unique Research & Educational Establishment (1999)
Reynolds opens the debate of experimental archaeology and science as a cooperation in demonstration areas and open air museums. He describes which farms are already open and how they were used. Little Butser, Hampshire was used as an open demonstrative area for scientists and public, while in Hillhampton Down the area was used as an Open Air Museum. Comparing both places, issues and advantages came up. On the one hand, free demonstrative areas give a lot of freedom to decide which projects and...
Can Firing Position of WWII Soldiers Be Determined by Shell Scatters? Preliminary Data from Experimental Archaeology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster describes results from an experiment designed to determine if there is consistency in the shell scatter patterns of the Colt 1911, Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun, M1 Carbine and M1 Garand, all common weapons of the American World War II Soldier. Forensic Ballistic evidence has proven to be a valid method of inquiry when determining the movements of...
Can You Predict the Pot? Using Morphometric Variability to Predict Potting Techniques (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Geometric Morphometrics in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While geometric morphometrics (GMM) roots are in biology, there has been an increase of studies applying GMM to archaeological material in recent years. Archaeologists have utilized morphometrics to determine the level of craft specialization at prehistoric sites, test the symmetry of stone tools, classify ceramic sherds, examine the level of...
Carbonised seed, crop yield, weed infestation and harvesting techniques of the Iron Age (1985)
The article from 1985 describes the experiment of reconstructing and agricultural field from the Iron Age at the Butser Ancient Farm. The experiment had a few issues, such as the climate which was not the same in the 20th century, compared to the Iron Age. The climate can have major influences on the harvests and the results of the experiment. It has to be debated and treated critically. Another difference of the Iron Age and the 20th century is the soil. The soil might have been a lot...
Carving Steatite (1981)
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Casting Experiment for a Small-Sized Bronze Statue of Buddha Dating to the Tang Dynasty (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The four-footed base is a specific structural feature of bronze statues of Buddha in China during the fourth to ninth century BC. This feature appears to have been made using the lost wax method, but experimental methods indicate that the four-footed base was made with the sand mold...
Celtic Gold (1986)
The conventional view of the lron Age is that it was a subsistence society, eking out a basic existence until the arrival of civilising Romans. As Dr Peter Reynolds of the Butser Ancient Farm reveals, nothing could be further from the truth. Britain was the bread basket of Western Europe and a major supplier of grain to the Roman Empire.
Ceramic Technology beyond the Rim: Reconstructing (and Firing) a Late Neolithic Chinese Kiln (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The past several decades have seen a shift in the focus of ceramic studies in Neolithic China from ceramic products toward ceramic production, as scholars have pushed beyond typological analyses to investigate the people who made, handled, and used these wares. Despite this turn toward process, comparatively little attention is given to the many...
Characterizing Weathered Protein Residues from an Intra-Annual Cooking Experiment: A Mass Spectrometry Approach (2015)
The identification of archaeological protein residues from cooking pottery using non-targeted mass spectrometry based approaches is a promising avenue of research. A major strength of mass spectrometry in archaeological protein residue analysis is that it allows for the reliability of protein identifications to be probabilistically quantified. Though it is clear that proteins can preserve in ceramics under favorable circumstances, little is known about diagenetic processes that affect...
Cherokee Ceramics: Cleaning and Tempering Clay (2013)
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Chicanxperimental Archaeology: Inclusion and Inclusions in the Experimental Construction of Earthen Ovens (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper describes the pedagogical and scientific results of the construction and testing of several miniature scale Mexican-style adobe ovens (hornos) by faculty and students in Anthropology at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB). Findings are divided into three sections: Adobe as Teaching Technology, Adobe as Construction Technology, and Adobe and...
Child Disability and Prostheses in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2018)
Introduction of dedicated paediatric medicine, was an advancement arriving in Britain late compared to its neighbours such as France’s ‘Enfant Malades’ in 1802. Paediatric hospitals were a consequence of physicians' financial aspirations rather than falsely portrayed ‘community need’ (Lomax, 1998). Their establishment contradicted longstanding attitudes surrounding children as ‘incomplete beings…whom it was wasteful to devote attention to’ (Porter, 1989). Oddly, amputation saw children harness...
Cholla Bud Roasting in St. George, Utah during the Early Pueblo II Period (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Hot Rocks in Hot Places: Investigating the 10,000-Year Record of Plant Baking across the US-Mexico Borderlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cactus-bud procurement is not typically associated with Virgin Branch Ancestral Puebloan subsistence systems. Yet, when I visited a small artifact scatter on the apex of a rocky, cholla-covered hill near St. George, Utah, I was reminded of cactus-procurement landscapes on the...
Clay Storage Pits: An Upland Site Characteristic
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Clovis Points Were Likely Knives: An Evaluation of the Evidence (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Clovis projectile point attached to the end of a spear or dart is an iconic symbol of North America’s late Pleistocene hunter, but the point’s use is more assumed than demonstrated. We find evidence for the "point-as-projectile" inference equivocal, because that same evidence also supports "point-as-knife". We present new experimental data that demonstrate...
A combination of ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and use-wear analysis as a mean to recover testimonies of past human activities in Southeast Asian rainforests. (2016)
In order to recover the activities that took place a long time ago in the rainforests, it is desirable to have an idea of the ones which can possibly be carried out in this specific environment with the resources available. Such knowledge can be acquired by conducting field investigation among forest experts: local populations who currently inhabit it and rely on plants, animals and minerals for their daily subsistence. To be able to identify these activities in the archaeological record, it is...
A comparative assessment of Upper Paleolithic lissoir (smoother) manufacture and use (2017)
Recent studies have brought focus to a category of bone tools previously thought to be restricted to modern humans. Excavations of layers dating to approximately 50 kya from two different sites in southwest France, Pech-de-l’Azé I and Abri Peyrony, have produced four nearly identical fragments of bone tools identified as lissoirs (a French term meaning "smoothers"). Lissoirs are specialized tools thought to have been used in hide preparation. Although this tool type has been defined in various...
A Comparative Functional Analysis of Old Copper Culture Utilitarian Implements via Artifact Replication, Materials Testing, and Ballistic Analyses (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North America's Old Copper Culture (4000-1000 B.C.) is a unique event in archaeologists’ global understanding of prehistoric metallurgic evolution. For millennia, Middle and Late Archaic hunter-gatherers around the North American Upper Great Lakes region regularly made utilitarian implements out of copper, only for these items to decline in prominence and...
Comparing Energy Expenditures of Mortar and Pestle and Grinding Slab Technologies (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Formal Models and Experimental Archaeology of Ground Stone Milling Technology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Daily activities such as grinding plant material require energy input. It is ideal to put in the least amount of work to obtain the greatest yield of product. Energetic expenditures and returns for grinding slab and mortar and pestle use remain largely unstudied. In this study, resting and grinding heart-rate...
Comparing Technological Choices for Grain Processing at Aşıklı Höyük, an Early Neolithic Village in Turkey: Experimental Removal of Chaff from Barley (*Hordeum vulgare) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Formal Models and Experimental Archaeology of Ground Stone Milling Technology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Experimental studies can make significant contributions to understanding the function of grinding stones found in archaeological contexts. Milling technology at the early Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in Turkey is dominated by querns or grinding slabs, but mortars and pestles are not uncommon. Most of the...
Comparing the Durability and Robusticity of Obsidian and Chert Projectile Points (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Old Technology, New Methodology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone weaponry and tools were fundamental to the success of past peoples. Stone weaponry varies dramatically, with both functional and nonfunctional factors contributing to this variation. The durability (whether a stone tip breaks or not) and robusticity (how much damage is incurred upon breakage) of stone weapon tips were two important functional...
Comparison of Hafting Adhesive Strengths in Lithic Tools (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pine pitch is a form of glue whose main ingredients are pine resin and some sort of fibrous binder. There are various recipes that involve using different binders such as herbivore dung, ash, and organic fibers. Some formulas also call for beeswax or a form of fat to keep the pitch pliable and resist...