Palaeolithic

Book Review: Fish Leather Tanning and Sewing by Lotta Rahme and Dag Hartman

Author(s)
Danny Honig 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/3
Judging from the extensive bibliography in this book, little to no literature exists on fish leather tanning in English. A quick Google and Amazon search reveals that a good general book on leather tanning includes at least one chapter on fish, reptile and other "alternative" skins...

Discussion: Food - Reconstruction and the Public

Author(s)
Thit Birk Petersen 1 ✉,
Aidan O’Sullivan 2,
John Majerle 3,
Gary Ball 4,
Edwin Deady 5,
Torsten Neuer 6,
Miika Vanhapiha 7,
Darell Markewitz 8,
Olaf Trollheimsfjord 9,
Vicky Shearman 10,
Del Elson 11,
Daniel Serra 12
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/3
For a BBC program in 1954, Sir Mortimer Wheeler tasted a reconstruction of the Tollund Man’s last supper, which turned out to be a tasteless mush. This led him to announce: "I believe that the poor chap of Tollund committed suicide because he could stand his...

John C. Whittaker PhD

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USA
Crafts & Skills
Weapons

I am an academic archaeologist teaching at Grinnell College in Iowa, USA. I work with analysis and replication of prehistoric technologies, especially stone tools and atlatls, and early agricultural technology.

An Experimental Programme for the Collection and Use of Retouching Tools Made on Diaphyseal Bone Splinters

Author(s)
Millán Mozota Holgueras 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/2
The present work presents the results of 38 experiments of bone fragmentation and blank collection, together with 177 experiments of retouch. In the first series of experiments, the fragmentation step was executed by massive percussion using macro-lithic tools...

Fire and Bone: An Experimental Study of Cremation

Author(s)
Christophe Snoeck 1 ✉,
R. J. Schulting 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/2
7th UK EA Conference Cardiff 2013
***Many bone fragments have been burned in controlled laboratory conditions but few have been burned on outdoor pyres. In order to study and understand cremated bone, it is crucial to conduct experiments in real environmental conditions. In this study several cremations were carried out outdoors...

Lithic Experiments in Rescue Archaeology: a Case from Southern Norway

Author(s)
Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen 1 ✉,
J. Åkerstrøm 1,
T. Vihovde 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/2

To test whether or not the form of the discovered quartz was a result of prehistoric technological choices, a fracture analysis on collected vein quartz from Aust-Agder County was conducted1 . Lithic experimentation is traditionally associated with either institutionalized academic research or post-production phases of excavations.

Tomskaya Pisanitsa (RU)

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In Kemerovskaya Oblast, near the village Pisanaya you will find the Historical, Cultural and Natural Museum-preserve “Tomskaya Pisanitsa”. Its main attraction are petroglyphs and cave paintings. The exhibition “Ancient Dwellings” illustrates the housing traditions and architecture of peoples of the Central Siberia in the ancient time, from the late Stone Age (the Upper Paleolithic, about 45 - 30 thousand years BC).

In Kemerovskaya Oblast, near the village Pisanaya you will find the Historical, Cultural and Natural Museum-preserve “Tomskaya Pisanitsa” (Томская писаница). Its main attraction are petroglyphs and cave paintings. The exhibition “Ancient Dwellings” illustrates the housing traditions and architecture of peoples of the Central Siberia in the ancient time...

Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2011

Author(s)
Sina Lorbeer-Klausnitz 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/2
Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***Bilanz 2011 once again supplies an exciting, diverse and interesting view into the world of experimental archaeology. Published by EXAR in cooperation with the Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2011, 270 pp, ISBN 978-3-89995-794-5