Other Experiments

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:


  1. Manufacturing inorganic dyes

  2. Sculpting clay figurines

  3. Processing plant fibres

  4. Making slipware

  5. Turning wooden artefacts

  6. Testing soot deposition on ceramic pots

  7. Testing manganese dioxide as a Neanderthal firelighter

  8. Brewing Anglo-Saxon cider

  9. Making papyrus

  10. Distilling aceramic birch bark tar

  11. 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.