#experimental archeology

[fishonthetree]

More on ancient life and early technologies for different crafts. I made some clay pots before plus I tried for an Old Kingdom Egyptian beer jar - the shapes and sizes were quite varied, and so were the quality, but we know they were made without a potter's wheel, with coil method where you put coils of clay on top of each other and pinch and smooth them together. I fired them with the safest possible option in a city that's above the population level of Ancient Egypt - pit firing in a bbq oven. There were some trials with the coal then I switched to wood and that worked nicely, the temperature likely reached the lowest points of turning the clay into earthenware ceramic (around 600 C). Two pots broke (one from thermal shock, one wasn't fully dried out because I was in a hurry), but the oil lamp, the beads and the last pot fired nicely! These are unsealed and unvetrified ceramics, highly porous like terracotta flower pots. Maybe I'll use them for that. If nothing else, I learned that firing pots in 35 C summer is hard work, and I got sunburn sitting in the shadows all the time. Progress:

And here's a video of the end results: https://youtu.be/RWi8A7neL-Q?feature=shared

#my art #pottery #ceramics #earthenware #experimental archeology

[hotcocoandmarshmallows]

Experimental archeology sometimes includes feeling incredibly frustrated by a broken boombox and finding the same work arounds as who knows how many other people through the past 30 years.

#experimental archeology to me is experiencing the joy and frustration in the same ways as people before me #experimental archeology #got pissed about it. got over it. now play tapes in reverse whenever I use this boom box

[the-dream-verse]

#Europe #France #Guédelon #Guedelon Castle #experimental archeology #medieval europe #a very ambitious experimental project

[grandparomeaskblog]

Wip encaustic fayum replica

#my art #encausticpainting #fayum portraits #experimental archeology #re-enactment #living history #beeswax painting #traditional art #greco egyptian #roman art

[igneous-extrusive]

Just dug up some deer legs that I've buried a year or so ago. They're pretty clean! Putting them in a bucket of dish-soapy water to degrease them. They'll be very useful for making stone age tools.

#vulture culture #vulture core #archeology #experimental archeology #bushcraft #bones #knapping #flintknapping

[alpaca-clouds]

Experimental Archeologists are fucking rad!

Let me geek out about science a bit more, alright? And for that I really wanna talk about that part of archeology that normal folks know very little about: Experimental Archeology.

And I know for a lot of people this sounds kinda strange. How the fuck are you going to experiment about archeology? Isn't archeology all about dicking in the dirt for some ceramic or something? Or about excavating ruins?

Well, here is the thing. Ruins and ceramics can tell us a lot about the life back in "ye olden days", but they also leave a lot of questions. Questions about how the people were actually living and how the things that were excavated were actually created.

You might know all those Ancient Alien nutjobs. Folks that will yell about how people in the ancient times (or, lets be honest, how non-white people in the ancient times) could never have ever done this with the technology of the time.

That is where experimental archeology comes in. In a lot of the cases from the old times we actually have found some tools, too. So we know what kind of tools that might have been used and the like. And as thus they experiment how to use those tools and other things we know were available to create those things.

With that we know that for example Stonehenge could have been created by very few people in a fairly short amount of time. We also have a good idea of how the pyramids might have been build and how many people it took. (Less than you think.)

But experimental archeologists and experimental historians do even more. They recreate food and the methods it was cooked based on findings we made. They recreate clothing and furniture and other tools, learning a lot about the process through it.

Which is amazing - and we are learning quite a lot about the past through it. It is fucking amazing.

#archeology #history #historian #experimental archaeology #experimental history #cool stuff

[jayswing101]

#hello i just watched this video and started crying when they said the original sculptor's finger prints are preserved in the bronze casting #this is so cool and i love this sculpture so much #im also thinking i need to start looking into archaeology in turtle island and see if there's any Indigenous archaeologists to work with.. #bc ive always wanted to do archaeology but archaeology in turtle island has such a bad past #and is very closely associated with theft and disrespectful practices for Indigenous peoples past and present #so i never really considered doing archaeology here as an option #thought the only way to do archaeology in a way that honoured and respected the people of the past would be to go abroad #but this video and the care that was taken when recreating the pots in bronze makes it clear that no #it is possible to do archaeology in a good way here too #i just have to find other Indigenous people who are the ones leading the research teams #anyway. this is a v cool video and it made me emotional so here. for you all to see as well! #indigenous #indigenous art #sculpture #experimental archaeology #archeology #video

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

László Gucsi firing his replicas

#tisza culture #pottery #lengyel culture #archaeology #experimental archaeology #neolithic #László Gucsi #prehistory #anthropomorphic figurine #archeology #my upl

[modern-inheritance]

Hello! That previous ask got me. Does your au have indoor plumbing or is that still an elven privilege?

Haha, yes, indoor plumbing is indeed a thing. It's not as sophisticated, and it does vary depending on location, race, etc. but we do not have (what I like to call) 'shitwizards' in MIC.

A place like Eragon's farm on the very outskirts of Carvahall would have rudimentary plumbing, requiring some priming/pumping at a well, which could also be done with livestock turning a crank in the mornings to get everything moving and pressurized. Dwarves in more mountainous areas typically use mixes of gravity, spring systems and even geothermal changes to move their water and pressurize plumbing. Elves use a mix of everything, using magic to tap into the massive varieties of pressurization at their disposal, though they can use spring fed, gravity fed and wind powered systems without expending energy just as easily.

Surdan and other city based systems are a bit trickier. I'm no plumber, but I think I have a rudimentary understanding of what's needed to move water and other things around. What I'm not too good with is how you do it on a large scale in the city, without electricity (still trying to move away from it) and without much height difference to ensure water flow.

I'll do some looking into the Romans. Might be able to tinker with some of their systems. They LOVED their plumbing and put it to work on large scales in dense urban environments, though I'm not entirely sure how effective it was when you got really packed in there. Pressure is what's needed most for the kind of stuff we're used to, so supplying it and keeping it up would be difficult 24/7. Surda is a hot climate as well, much like Italy and the surrounding areas.

HmMMmmmmMmmMmmmmMmm............

OH! Right! Welcome welcome! To Modern Inheritance! I've seen your name around a bit lately, always glad to have new people here! What a fantastic ask! I love the ones that make me think like this, it's great for lore building. And it gets me to look into engineering! Splendid! :D

#eragon #inheritance cycle #the cyclists #the world of eragon #the inheritance cycle #modern inheritance #ket's modern inheritance cycle #modern inheritance lore #water in modern inheritance #ket's going crazy again #in a good way this means i get to watch Time Team more #and experimental archeology! WHAT FUN!!! #*happy claps*

[tempestclerics]

i like chainmailling and am glad i picked it up BUT at the same time think i will probably spend a lot of time making pretty small pieces because it still takes a while even though it's not tedious BUT at the same time there's an evil little voice in my head that's like. well but you can't use it for anything. you should learn to make riveted mail it would be more historically accurate and usable for sca combat. it can't take that much more time. i am hitting this little voice with a stick btw

#sola said #me @ myself literally chill out it's okay to just make crafts for the sake of them being pretty #just make the pretty impractical fantasy armor you are ALLOWED #and also. i do not own an anvil and it would be both comical and irresponsible to attempt to acquire or regularly use one #but it would be so cool and also more useful from an experimental archeology standpoint-- [I AM BONKED BY A PADDED WEAPON] #sola stitched

[valentineblaze]

Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix is fun. Only a few episodes in. The Man is obviously looking for Atlantis. Lots of theories and a fun chunk of guesswork. I'm kinda annoyed how he rags on mainstream Archeologists/Anthropologists like it isn't the institutions funding them that's the problem. You can't research without funding. You can't publish without permission. Once Anthropology swapped to being a more female oriented field once again funding dried up. Most people starting out in these fields end up working for the government as it's the most financially stable option. Which as we know has a history of changing things to throw themselves in a better light. They also end up selling their souls to oil/construction companies bc once again best financial options. Cause getting these degrees are EXPENSIVE

#archeology #anthropology #experimental archeologists have the most fun to be honest but they are typically the poorest #ancient apocalypse #having clips of the joe rogan show doesnt install confidence sir

[an-asuryampasya]

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yet another day when I am cursing my resistance to picking up coding skills, but this time it's because of the World Soil Museum.

i mean first off, that EXISTS! how sodding cool is THAT???? a soil museum!!! AND they have a virtual tour! i am so excited to discover this!!

and the website has so much info about each kind of soil (like this page on a random sample I clicked on from the virtual tour) and there's images of each sample they have. And I just it would be really neat to do the whole 'play with jpegs like dolls' thing and place samples side by side to compare. Even just the images. Actually, especially the images of the samples.

like i KNOW getting to see silt and clay beside each other would fix some part of my brain.

would it particularly useful? idk, unsure how much the average person cares about this and those that do care likely have better and more efficient sources of info. but I would have a lot of fun with it, so there's that.

for a tool like this i imagine i'd need to get each sample's image+info separately and then set up a way to pull them up side by side. which mhmm boo @ the coding involved because that stuff remains witchcraft to me 😔

#side note i am extremely delighted by the fact that I am as excited about this soil museum as I was about Butser Ancient Farm #butser is SO fucking cool. it's a museum that does experimental archeology but also lets visitors take part so like #visitors get to recreate the same processes that were used in different eras for stuff like smelting and stuff #you get to learn how to make your own bows and arrows! turns out feather orientation is a big deal? #or liquify bronze in a crucible using only the fuels that were available back in the day and stuff #it's so cool aaaaah #anyway #lowkey tempted to genuinely try making something like this tho #because that will probably be the best way to get my brain to stop shutting down the moment it sees python #ie have an interest that overrides the instinctual urge to burn down the computer #but also consider: bleh. #placeholder tag #idk tho it might actually happen since i'm seeing my sibling in two days and that's soon enough for this interest to not completely die dow #by then #and he's my go-to for things code anyway #mhmmm #also huh been a while since i rambled in the tags like this

[apoptoses]

This only Armand-adjacent but I’ve been wracking my brain for months trying to figure out how they got perfectly pleated shirts in 1490s Venice without having to take apart the entire shirt every time it’s washed and re-pleat it.

The solution is to wash your shirt, wring it as tight as possible, and just leave it to dry in a heap. Armand just never had his clothes ironed and was at the peak of fashion🙃

(I’ll put the doublet on a dress form with the rest of the get up eventually but that’s what it would look like, all 100% hand sewn with visible decorative tiny stitches)

#you don’t get the stress I’ve been under trying to experimental archeology my way out of this hole #just to find out amadeo and the boys lived like frat boys #letting their underwear dry in a heap in the sun or in front of the fire #jfc #(I do living history so like I actually need this outfit for reasons and not just vc insanity) #(it’s just sometimes my brands of insanity blur together nicely)

[pompompurin1028]

Having watched a YouTube video now I desperately want a Victorian princess skirt (x)

#it's so high waisted and it looks so good asgshsjak #everyone go watch bernadette banner on youtube who has dress history and experimental archeology content at times and I'm fascinated #the silhouette it makes is so pretty orz #kat rambles

[thisiswhymp3]

when he. when he dances and then does the finger gun and shoots himself in the hope to die video. never forget that nothing has ever slayed harder

#i need to be teaching myself about experimental archeology but here we are instead as always heyoooo

[pierrebarrauddelagerie]

#monochromeart #mspaint animation #mspaintart #mspaint #timelapse #art process #digital drawing #experimental #experimental art #architecture #architecture art #archeology #pixelarcheology #pixelart #pierre barraud de lagerie