Other Experiments
Project Description
Project Description
While we don't have space to give a page to each individual experiment that has been conducted over the years, it is worth highlighting some of the more prominent:
Manufacturing inorganic dyes
Sculpting clay figurines
Processing plant fibres
Making slipware
Turning wooden artefacts
Testing soot deposition on ceramic pots
Testing manganese dioxide as a Neanderthal firelighter
Brewing Anglo-Saxon cider
Making papyrus
Distilling aceramic birch bark tar
Testing the function of Neanderthal bone tools
Some of these have been conducted as part of teaching modules, some as student projects and dissertations and others as ongoing research topics.