Roman Era

Tom Hicks

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United Kingdom

I started experimental archaeology work in 2017 during my undergrad at Cardiff University, continuing this in my archaeology degrees, as a self-employed heritage educator and as a craftsperson making archaeological reproductions for heritage organisations.

An Experimental Exploration of the Earliest Soapmaking

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Soap is a substance now taken for granted, but there is uncertainty, myth and misinformation about its development, and little scholarly attention has been paid to the likely circumstances surrounding its discovery. As part of a MSc in Experimental Archaeology, a project collated the earliest mentions of proto-soaps...