Experimental Archaeology and Investigating Houses in the Past
Author(s): Aidan O'Sullivan
Year: 2018
Summary
Experimental archaeology can be defined as the reconstruction of past buildings, technologies, objects and environmental contexts, their testing and use, so as to gain a better understanding of the role of material culture in people’s lives in the past. We explore ideas of craft, materiality, knowledge, skills and the use of different materials to practically test how people made, used and discarded things in the past. This paper will investigate how early medieval houses in Europe can be understood in terms of construction, use and abandonment, using experimental archaeology, historical sources and archaeological sciences.
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Experimental Archaeology and Investigating Houses in the Past. Aidan O'Sullivan. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443238)
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Keywords
General
Architecture
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Experimental Archaeology
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Ireland
Geographic Keywords
Europe: Western Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -13.711; min lat: 35.747 ; max long: 8.965; max lat: 59.086 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22755