methods & techniques
Different Vessel Surface Polishing Methods and Mutual Effects of their Applications
An Experimental Approach to Assessing the Tempering and Firing of Local Pottery Production in Nubia during the New Kingdom Period
Introduction
Ceramologists usually apply the term style to describe the set of visual (i.e., decorative and morphometric) attributes of a ceramic object (see, e.g., Rice, 2015, pp. 388-410). The term fabric is mainly employed in petrographic and technological studies to indicate the physical characteristics of the material (i.e., clay paste composition) a pot is made from ( Nordström and Bourriau, 1993, p. 162).
Standardized Reporting of Experimental Iron Smelting - A modest (?) Proposal
Background: The State of an Art?
Over the last three decades, bloomery iron smelting has moved from the largely theoretical to the practical. Although there were certainly earlier attempts via experimental process to build workable furnaces, most of these attempts were basically unsuccessful, at least in terms of actual iron production. Early researchers too often undertook (or at least only formally reported on) limited test series (one or two attempts) and many concentrated far too much on slag, not on the production of metallic iron itself.
A Spark of Inspiration: Experimentally Testing Manganese Dioxide as a Fire Lighting Aide
Let the Chips Fall Where They May: Evaluating the Impact and Effectiveness of Video Resources for Knowledge Transfer in Flint Knapping
Groundstone Indications from the Southern Levant for a 7th Millennium BCE Upright Mat Loom
The Vertical Olive Crushing Mill as a Machine and its Energy Balance - A Preliminary Approach
Introduction
The vertical monolithic olive mill of the type of mola olearia which, like the Roman trapetum, first appeared during the Hellenistic era and spread all over the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean, surviving until the 20th century 1 .