Experiencing Archaeology by Experiment

Experiencing Archaeology by Experiment
Author: Penny Cunningham
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

There is a growing trend among archaeologists to re-create artefacts and actions at a 1:1 scale in order to answer questions and gain new insights into the past. In November 2007, the University of Exeter hosted a one-day conference on experimental archaeology, and it was soon discovered that experience is a key issue in understanding the use of materials and past processes. Papers presented in this volume consider both theoretical issues and practical case studies. The scope ranges from skinning animals or dyeing wool the Roman way, to producing sound with flint tools, carving stone on Chalcolithic Cyprus, or casting bronze objects both as art and science in Ireland. The eight chapters in this book demonstrate the myriad possibilities of archaeology by experiment. Experimental archaeology is multi-disciplinary by nature, with examples from anthropology, ethnography, taxidermy, finite element analysis and manufacturing systems theory all being present in this volume. Not only does this sub-discipline have a colourful and meaningful past, but it will surely have a significant future.

Experiencing Archaeology

Experiencing Archaeology
Author: Lara Homsey-Messer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178920349X

Today, many general-education archaeology courses are large, lecture-style class formats that present a challenge to providing students, particularly non-majors, with opportunities to learn experientially. This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. Ranging in length from five to thirty minutes, activities created by archaeologists are designed to break up traditional classroom lectures, engage students of all learning styles, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.

Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology

Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology
Author: Jeffrey R. Ferguson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2010-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1607320223

Each chapter addresses a particular classification of material culture---ceramics, stone tools, perishable materials, composite hunting technology, butchering practices and bone tools, and experimental zooarchaeology---detailing issues that must be considered in the development of experimental archaeology projects and discussing potential pitfalls. The experiments follow coherent and consistent research designs and procedures that are given theoretical context. Contributors outline methods that will serve as a guide in future experiments. This degree of standardization is uncommon in traditional archaeological research but is essential to experimental archaeology. --

The Constructed Past

The Constructed Past
Author: Philippe Planel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134828284

The Constructed Past presents group of powerful images of the past, termed in the book construction sites. At these sites, full scale, three-dimensional images of the past have been created for a variety of reasons including archaeological experimentation, tourism and education. Using various case studies, the contributors frankly discuss the aims, problems and mistakes experienced with reconstruction. They encourage the need for on-going experimentation and examine the various uses of the sites; political, economical and educational.

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental Archaeology
Author: John Morton Coles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781932846263

First published in 1979, this text picks out the major trends in experimental archaeology. However the choice of work described is selective and represents the author's interest in archaeological experiment as an important means of retrieving and explaining evidence about early societies.

Archaeology by Experiment

Archaeology by Experiment
Author: John Coles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317606086

Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make his tools and weapons and pottery? Such everyday questions, besides the more dramatic mysteries associated with the monuments of Easter Island and Stonehenge and the colonization of Polynesia, can all be explored by experiment.

Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling

Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling
Author: Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789693209

In this book, based on the proceedings of a two-day workshop on experimental archaeology at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in 2017, scholars, artists and craftspeople explore how people in the past made things, used and discarded them, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

Experiments Past

Experiments Past
Author: Jodi Reeves Flores
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN: 9789088902512

With Experiments Past the important role that experimental archaeology has played in the development of archaeology is finally uncovered and understood. Experimental archaeology is a method to attempt to replicate archaeological artefacts and/or processes to test certain hypotheses or discover information about those artefacts and/or processes. It has been a key part of archaeology for well over a century, but such experiments are often embedded in wider research, conducted in isolation or never published or reported. Experiments Pasts provides readers with a glimpse of experimental work and experience that was previously inaccessible due to language, geographic and documentation barriers, while establishing a historical context for the issues confronting experimental archaeology today. This volume contains formal papers on the history of experimental methodologies in archaeology, as well as personal experiences of the development of experimental archaeology from early leaders in the field, such as Hans-Ole Hansen. Also represented in these chapters are the histories of experimental approaches to taphonomy, the archaeology of boats, building structures and agricultural practices, as well as narratives on how experimental archaeology has developed on a national level in several European countries and its role in encouraging a wide-scale interest and engagement with the past.

The Archaeology of Science

The Archaeology of Science
Author: Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-04-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319000772

This manual pulls together—and illustrates with interesting case studies—the variety of specialized and generalized archaeological research strategies that yield new insights into science. Throughout the book there are templates, consisting of questions, to help readers visualize and design their own projects. The manual seeks to be as general as possible, applicable to any society, and so science is defined as the creation of useful knowledge—the kinds of knowledge that enable people to make predictions. The chapters in Part I discuss the scope of the archaeology of science and furnish a conceptual foundation for the remainder of the book. Next, Part II presents several specialized, but widely practiced, research strategies that contribute to the archaeology of science. In order to thoroughly ground the manual in real-life applications, Part III presents lengthy case studies that feature the use of historical and archaeological evidence in the study of scientific activities.