Experiments with Past Materialities

Description

This volume reflects a growing interest in experimental archaeology across Europe. It is intended to demonstrate that EA is no longer a minor subdiscipline, but a scientific mode of approaching the complex material culture of the past and a contemporary discipline in numerous European archaeological schools. Its two main parts present experiments in ancient life (food production, technologies, behaviours and daily rituality) and examine the social implications of EA in education and popular culture. Every experiment, besides being a method of identifying objects, spaces, or simple gestures, is an opportunity to create an intimate relationship with the materiality of the past.