Title: Experiments with past materialities /
Authors: Gheorghiu, Dragos.; Children, George
Date: 2011
Publisher: Archaeopress,
Physical description: iv, 137 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: The experimentation of technologies linked to vegetable food: the production of flour at Bilancino (Florence Italy) 30.000 VP / Biancamaria Aranguren and Anna Revedin -- Daily practices of prehistoric Europe during Mesolithic/Neolithic transition / Jacqui Wood -- New experimental approaches on lithic projectile macro-wear analysis: a case study / Cinzia Loi and Vittorio Brizzi -- Experiments and technological analyses on Neolithic ceramics from Lamezia plain, Calabria / Rocco Purri and Simona Scarcella -- Storage vessels in the Mediterranean area in the late Middle Ages: interpreting technical devices with reference to ethnographic and historical sources / Marta Caroscio -- An archaeology of the Iron Age coastal salt industry: the essential role of experiment / Marie-Yvane Daire, Catherine Bizien-Jaglin and Anna Baudry -- Experiments with ancient copper smelting technologies / Stanislav Grigoriev -- The Minoan double-V-necked dress / Mick Krupa -- Using experimental archaeology to answer the unanswerable: a case study using Roman dyeing / Heather Hopkins -- Traces of fire and pieces of clay: a preliminary approach to landscape through the remains of Neolithic burnt houses / Styliani Kaltsogianni -- Harmony of the material and immaterial in prehistoric monuments. Experimental investigation of ancient light and shadow interaction: a case study / Emília Pásztor -- Experimenting technological rituals / Dragoş Gheorghiu -- Between research and tourism: a case of integrated experimental archaeology in Sardinia / M.G. Melis ... [et al.] -- The role of experiment as an educational approach in maritime archaeology / Francesca Oliveri.
Subject headings (LCSH): Experimental archaeology.; Material culture.; Prehistoric peoples.