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Hard Fun: Further Discussions on an Undergraduate Project to (Re)Construct and Fire a Medieval Tile Kiln

EXARC Journal, 2023
This experiment, undertaken over a 12-month period in 2015 at Norton Priory Museum in Cheshire, formed part of a pedagogic case study and an experimental archaeology project.
Gaynor Wood
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The effect of traditional amur cork tree bark extract dyes on thermal stability of paper by accelerating ageing

Heritage Science, 2022
Extracts from amur cork tree barks contain some of the most important traditional natural dyes used, especially for functional production in ancient Chinese papers, due to religious reasons and their aesthetic aspects and antibacterial properties.
Yanbing Luo, Quan Wei, Yanfei Wei
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Squeezing minds from stones: Cognitive archaeology and the evolution of the human mind [PDF]

, 2019
Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archaeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Edited by cognitive archaeologist Karenleigh A.
Coolidge, Frederick Lawrence, Overmann, Karenleigh Anne   +1 more
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Conference Review: Experimental archaeology: how does it work? by EAS, 28-28 April, 2022 in Solothurn (CH)

EXARC Journal, 2022
With public involvement and accompanied by great media interest, the first Swiss National Congress on Experimental Archaeology took place in Solothurn. For two days, more than 120 participants took part in professional exchange and the interdisciplinary ...
Alex R. Furger, Claus Detreköy
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Mul Meyaj Tía U Betá Jump’el Kaj: Working Together to Build a Community in Puuc Archaeology

Heritage, 2020
This paper explores specific challenges that archaeologists face when attempting to involve a broader community of local stakeholders in cultural heritage research. We combine our perspectives as a US-based archaeologist and a local community member in a
Kenneth E. Seligson, Manuel Chi Nah
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Experimental and Experiential approaches to the past – Reconstructing and understanding Roman domesticity through recreated places

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2023
Experiential, or sensory, studies of the past are often viewed in opposition to the ‘scientific’ nature of experimental archaeology, despite obvious overlaps between these two fields.
Nicky Garland
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Experimental archaeology and games [PDF]

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2013
Experimental archaeology has long yielded valuable insights into the tools and techniques that were featured in past peoples’ relationships with the material world around them. However, experimental archaeology has, until now, confined itself to rigid, empirical, and quantitative questions.
Woolford, Kirk, Dunn, Stuart
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Archaeological Science and Experimental Archaeology Can Inform Sustainable Innovative Craft

Sustainability, 2023
This paper provides an example of how combining archaeological analysis of ancient materials with current technological needs can lead to new and innovative products designed to promote sustainability within the heritage craft sector. The project behind this paper, RecRAAFT, promoted activities where potters collaborated with archaeologists to create ...
Testolini, Veronica, Thompson, Lenore, Lemorini, Cristina   +2 more
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Handmade films and artist-run labs. The chemical sites of film’s counterculture [PDF]

, 2018
This article addresses handmade films and especially artist-run labs as sites of hands-on film culture that reactivate moments and materials from media history.
Catanese, Rossella, Parikka, Jussi
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DNA and Etruscan identity [PDF]

, 2017
From the time of Herodotus, who suggested that the Etruscans were immigrants to Italy, to the present day, the origin of the Etruscans has been debated.
Perkins, Phil
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