Presentation new partner: the University of Exeter
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Presentation new partner: the University of Exeter
Devon, Southwest Britain; landscape of gardens, valleys and streams 1,000 academic staff and 1,800 employees 14,000 undergraduates; 2,000 postgraduate taught course students 1,500 research students Archaeology Department 13 lecturers, 2 technicians + admin staff + project researchers 150-180 undergraduate students; c 50 research postgraduates 15-25 MA students: 5-10 Experimental Archaeology MA students Experimental Archaeology Staff • Linda Hurcombe: stone and bone tools, usewear analysis, hideworking, basketry, fibres and cordage, ceramics and taphonomic processes; worked in community and heritage archaeology and co-investigator on boat project • Bruce Bradley: stone and bone tools (expert knapper), hideworking, fibres and cordage, ceramics; worked in public presentation and currently directing Learning to be Human project Alan Outram: fats, bone/antler tools, taphonomic processes Gill Juleff: archaeometallurgy, smelting and forging iron and lost wax casting; projects in Indian Subcontinent and Exmoor, UK Facilities for experimental archaeology include wet and clean labs, an experimental lab with supplies of materials and equipment, microscopes, kiln, potter’s wheel. There are 2 outdoor areas and the university land has wild and exotic plants and trees. Boat project public experimental archaeology National Maritime Museum Falmouth Build the boat with bronze age tools, oak trees, and yew withies Bootsbau mit bronzezeitlichen Werkzeugen, Eichenholz und Eibenschößlingen Costruire la barca con strumenti dell’etá del Bronzo, quercia e polloni di tasso sewn plank boat c 2000 BC “genähtes” Boot Barca in tavolato “cucito” Sept 2012: Sea trials – perhaps wet feet! Testfahrt im Meer – keine Angst vor nassen Füßen! Test di navigazione in mare – piedi bagnati? Learning to be Human Flintknapping skills project Does learning to make tools change your brain? Verändert Feuersteinschlagen das Gehirn? Imparare a produrre uno strumento cambia il tuo cervello? Brain scans before and after learning Gehirnscans vor und nach der Lernphase Risonanza magnetica prima e dopo l’apprendimento Using stone tools Verwendung von Steinwerkzeugen Utilizzo di strumenti litici to compare wear traces; but what materials and what tasks? Vergleich von Abnutzungsspuren – aber von welchen Materialien und welchen Vorgängen? Per confrontare i segni d’uso: ma con quali materiali e quali obbiettivi? Unusual materials Unusual processes Nettle (Uritica dioica) bast 2 stages of manual processing (but no water retting) Fine fibres without water retting Tasks and places = taskscapes Sensory worlds Working hides as place, smell, feel, and people memories Warmth, colour, texture, smell, flexibility, elasticity, impermeability, retention of qualities after wet-dry cycle Tanning methods ? brains, fat, smoke, tree bark plant Urine & many more impressions on pot sherds Abdrücke von Textilien in Keramik Impronte di tessuto su ceramica Experiments to replicate impressions on pot sherds Archaeological ‘Copying ‘ and present day ‘reverse engineering’ Drawn: Pottery vessel Late Neolithic Photo: experimental “original” basket Zeichnung: Keramikgefäß, Spätneolithikum Foto: experimenteller Korb als Vorlage für das Gefäß Disegno: vaso del tardo neolitico Foto: cestino “originale” sperimentale Touching the past project Facsimiles laser scans, then 3D prints near originals ‘authenticity’ transfer From enclosed display of original in National Museum to reconstruction copy on open display in local museum, Orkney to enlivened object ‘seen’ textures, drape, and movement via clips of making and wearing Enlivened object delivered via url code to smart phone or ipad