Experimental Archaeology UoM

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[Experimental Archaeology UoM @exparchUoM]

We’ve started this semester making cordage out of willow bark and nettles! The aim is to make enough to have rope, which we can then use to test its strength! We also want to make things like nets, baskets, and hats! Come along to our next session, Wednesday 1-3pm

[Experimental Archaeology UoM @exparchUoM]

Fantastic to be back at our experimental archaeology sessions, continuing to work on our baskets!

[John Piprani @johnpiprani]

Putting our experimentally produced artefacts and teaching collection to good use. https://t.co/BCgm9mvBzC

[John Piprani @johnpiprani]

https://t.co/4CKRTARtFn
This is a link to my blog post about making sinew from a deer metapodial.

[John Piprani @johnpiprani]

https://t.co/04Y4NsVVT7
Making a bone awl from a deer metapodial.

[UoM Archaeology @ArchSocUoM]

The summer ball is officially happening!! Tickets will be £40 and go on sale soon - check out this event page for all the details and make sure you grab a ticket!! https://t.co/E9V35q2Wl9

[Experimental Archaeology UoM @exparchUoM]

In today’s experimental archaeology we started weaving baskets out of willow branches! This was a lot of fun - definitely more challenging than the cordage, but we’re looking forward to finishing them!

[Amelia @amelia_halls]

We were making baskets out of willow in today’s @exparchUoM session!!

[UoM Archaeology @ArchSocUoM]

Fancy getting involved in some experimental archaeology? Come along to the teaching lab tomorrow - Nick Overton is running another session, and we’ll be working with cordage again!

[Experimental Archaeology UoM @exparchUoM]

Another afternoon spent making cordage! This time a lot of us were focused on using the nettles - but there were still a few of us concentrating on willow! @ArchSocUoM @WeAreArchMCR @UoMArchaeology

[Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology @UoMArchaeology]

Our labs are full of our amazing students stripping willows and making cordage with willow and nettle. We ❤ experimental #archaeology! @uomsalcstudents @UoMSALC @ArchSocUoM @exparchUoM

[ExperimentArchaeolog @EArchaeol]

Early medieval "Srubán crustalta coirce" (crusty oaten cakes), Lisleagh oat biscuit & @Culinaryireland demonstration https://t.co/x48tpFofPJ

[ExperimentArchaeolog @EArchaeol]

Early medieval roundhouse. Winter-cold now, warmth on our faces, backs cold, ash-wood spitting in the fire (with thanks to Seamus Heaney)

[🅰ntiquity Journal @AntiquityJ]

Use two sticks to make it into @nature! (...apologies to @ChiliPeppers)

Our experimental #archaeology article by @HCAatEdinburgh's Dyer & Fibiger on #Neolithic violence made it into Nature's Research Highlights! https://t.co/NWW8LDvB8y #ExpArch

[Experimental Archaeology UoM @exparchUoM]

Very excited that our barbed points are coming along so well, it’ll be a shame to stop over Christmas! But there’s a lot of exciting things planned for the new year

[Experimental Archaeology UoM @exparchUoM]

Watch this space, as hopefully we’ll have a facebook page and a blog up and running soon!

[Experimental Archaeology UoM @exparchUoM]

Under the supervision of our lecturer Nick Overton, we’ve all been working with antler for the last 2 weeks to create barbed antler points!