Recent content by Palaeocory

Hi everyone, I'm running an archaeology experiment next week for our funded project Life at the Cutting Edge, and am looking for volunteers in the Southampton area to come in for 90 minutes. It will involve using stone tools and taking a dexterity test and some hand measurements, and being...

A field school for learning Stone Age hunter-gatherer technologies is open for registration. It is open to anyone, internationally, as long as you are physically fit. Wild Cognition runs from June 6th to 26th, the first week on campus at UCCS in Colorado Springs, the second and third are...

Why do you assume people on our project have no relevant experience? It's not nice to judge people like that... as Toddy says, sometimes experimental archaeologists are skillfull people.

Archaeologists buried an elephant at Tubingen University... I wonder if that's in their plans? ;)

We didn't base it on a site, but used what was offered in the immediate environment to build a comfortable dwelling using pre-agricultural technologies. There really aren't a lot of archaeologically recovered pre-agricultural European dwellings, period. Mesolithic, Upper Palaeolithic or before...

Stone Age is just what we've been using since there's been some media attention... really we're all Palaeolithic archaeologists (and mostly Lower Palaeolithic archaeologists at that!) so what we mean by 'stone age' is really non-descript Palaeolithic. Or Upper Palaeolithic if you really want to...

Hmmm there is an MA in experimental archaeology at Exeter, I wonder if you could get hold of some of their reading lists...? (Is that the course you'll be doing??)

Is there a specific era or topic you are looking for experiments in? I recommend the experimental archaeology facebook page too, good group :)

I agree with your sentiment - and it's not just 'white folk' that are guilty. So many people are divorced from that lifeway and make incorrect judgements about its simplicity. I think a lot of experimental shelters are built by people that aren't living in them, and are reconstructing what...

I like that! Did the Welsh have reduced smoke in their houses for some reason then? Were they on to chimneys sooner? Or just better quality wood? The 10,000BC season 1 shelter that the other team made had a smoke hole I'm guessing because they probably based it off other stone age replica...

Hi Toddy, did you read the post? The shelter that the people who made the season 1 shelter (not made by Klint or any of us) made it with a smoke hole, which like you said acts as a conduit for the heat straight out the top. Klint highlighted that in the post as a problem, why it was a problem...

The Oxford Palaeotechnology Society and Wilderness Pioneers got together last year and made an experimental Stone Age shelter. Klint Janulis (member as well as host of 10,000BC) has written a series of blog posts about how the project came about, including some of the inspiration that came from...

That's my knife! (yes, I only have one) I love it. I prefer its shorter blade, I feel I have more control.

Bears are usually fine, they are only a danger if they are protecting their cubs, you surprise them, or they want your food (or they're a stupid juvenile that's too curious for their own good). Usually they're way more scared of you, and loud noises and throwing stuff at them will deter them if...

It's not saying I can't, I could also work with minors - I just have to make that a part of my application, and it's easier to not. Ethics boards are there to make sure your experiment is safe for people and you're not hurting them physically or mentally, what kind of personal details you are...