Archaeological Methods: Experimental Archaeology - Tea-break 45

Following the popularity of the previously coined “Tea-break Time Travel Training”, Matilda focuses in this episode on a commonly used method in archaeological research: Experimental Archaeology. Listen in to hear what experimental is, its origins and development, its strengths and weaknesses, and how it all started for Matilda with an afternoon of throwing prehistoric spears in a public park in Aberdeen!

Transcripts

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Links

• International Society for Experimental Archaeology

• Journal of Experimental Archaeology

• The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain by John Evans

• Studies in Human-Thing Entanglement by Ian Hodder

• Episode 13 of And My Trowel (processualism and post-processualism)

• Publications and projects list for all Matilda’s research (scroll to bottom of the page)

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