EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3

© EXARC, 2024; ISSN: 2212-8956;
Publishing date: August 22, 2024;
PDF: EXARC Journal 2024/03 Table of Contents

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Listen in to the episode of "EXARC Extracts", where we provide you with a short summary of the articles in the latest issue of the EXARC Journal. Matilda Siebrecht summarises the reviewed articles from the 2024/3 issue of the EXARC Journal. It includes eight reviewed articles as well as five unreviewed mixed matter articles.

 

Reviewed Articles

Knowing the Drill: Investigating Mesolithic Perforation Technologies Through Experiment, Traceology, and Photogrammetry

Knowing the Drill: Investigating Mesolithic Perforation Technologies Through Experiment, Traceology, and Photogrammetry
Author(s)
Andrew Fitches 1 ✉,
 Ben Elliott 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3
Perforations observed in artefacts, such as heavy tools, made from red deer antler indicate that Mesolithic people possessed various means for making holes in osseous materials. Nevertheless, prehistoric perforation technologies are relatively poorly understood. This study argues that a lack of systematic experimental-traceological work, compounded by...

An Experimental Exploration of the Earliest Soapmaking

An Experimental Exploration of the Earliest Soapmaking
Author(s)
Sally Pointer 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3
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...

For the Grater, Good: The Value of Informal Experiments for Understanding Bipolar Flaking and Manioc Grater Teeth

For the Grater, Good: The Value of Informal Experiments for Understanding Bipolar Flaking and Manioc Grater Teeth
Author(s)
John C. Whittaker 1 ✉,
Mary Jane Berman 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3
Informal experiential experimentation is often helpful for understanding a technology and raising interpretive questions and testable hypotheses. Here, a simple experiment in manufacturing microlithic flakes by bipolar percussion and using them as teeth in a wooden grater, helped us understand archaeological evidence of such teeth and the ‘manioc complex’ on San Salvador, Bahamas...

Is it Possible to Weave 8.end Satin with 5 Rods on a Warp-weighted Loom?

Is it Possible to Weave 8.end Satin with 5 Rods on a Warp-weighted Loom?
Author(s)
Antoinette M. Olsen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3
Back in 2020, I wrote an article entitled The Shroud of Turin and the Extra Sheds of Warping Threads (Olsen, 2020). When I was studying the weaving theory, I realised that it might be possible to weave 8-end satin with five rods on the warp-weighted loom. To date, I have not encountered any historical find showing satin woven on a warp-weighted loom...

Approaching Pottery Burnishing through Experimental Firings

Approaching Pottery Burnishing through Experimental Firings
Author(s)
Georgia Kordatzaki 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3
This study assesses the impact of firing on burnished ceramic surfaces. For this task, two main factors related to burnishing were examined and evaluated, the reflection of the ceramics and pottery surface sheen. Macroscopic observations on the burnished surface were made with the naked eye...