Experimental Archaeology
A Conference hosted by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Saturday 15^th & Sunday 16^th November 2008

8:30-9:15 registration

9:15-9:30 welcome

1. 9:30-9:50 DINELEY,Merryn:  More than the daily grind: experiments in grain processing techniques 

2. 9:50-10:10 ELLIOTT, Ben:  Barbed point manufacture at Star Carr

3. 10:10- 10:30 HOPKINS, Heather:  Experience versus Experiment: differing disciplines’ definitions leading to the answering of ‘unanswerable’ questions, a case-study using Roman dyeing 

4. 10:30-10:50 CHOYKE, Alice & DANIELS, Zsuzsa, Modelling textile production in the past: family hemp textile production in a Transylvanian village

10:50-11:30 coffee (registration continues)

5. 11:30- 11:50 KIRK, Susana:  The colours of Minoan faience: replicating an ancient technology 

6. 11:50-12:10 STERNKE, Farina:  Apprenticeship in Palaeolithic Societies - Preliminary Results of Recent Experimental Flintknapping and its Implications for Archaeological Interpretation

7. 12:10-12:30 HEEB, Julia:  Changing material identities – An experimental approach to the copper axes of South-Eastern Europe 

8. 12:30-12:50 EIGELAND,Lotte: Flint use in flint scarce regions - Experiments with low quality flint

12:30-14:00 lunch (provided)

9. 14:00-14:20 LERNER, Harry: Experimental Testing of Methodologies in Use-wear Analysis. 

10. 14:20-14:30 MASSAUD, Manal:  Study of the harmonization, convenience and suitableness of house designs in Ancient Egypt:  experimental reconstructions of some houses

11. 14:30-14:50 ESQUERRA, Clara Masriera: Reinterpreting roofs in the Iberian Citadel of Calafell 

12. 14:50-15:10 PAARDEKOOPER, Roeland: Desk Work, Field Work, then what?

13. 15:10-15:30 SCHENCK,  Tine: The positivist-postmodern tension in experimental archaeology of today

15:30-16:00 coffee

14. 16:00-17:00 discussion of papers 

15. 17:00-18:00 general discussion and closing remarks

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