What happens in a mash tun? Fifteen years ago we mashed in a tub using hot rocks and crushed malt for the local ArchSoc Technology Day @orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social. Five years ago #EXARC made a video for their YouTube page. 🏺🍺🤓Explaining #mashing #maltsugars #ale
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“Experimental archaeology and investigating the life, death and afterlife of wooden anthropomorphic figures in prehistoric Europe and beyond”
#Prehistory #Europe #Liminality #ExperimentalArchaeology #EXARC @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social youtu.be/l9QPoxrXxoA?...
Cover of EXARC experimental archaeology digest for 2024, publication pending. Shows a woman in grey trousers up a ladder working on a wooden structure. List on cover shows some of the articles, including boomerangs, spamaking and Chinese hair dye in the early medieval period!
Title of paper, Hay is for horses: making and usng a traditional style Irish straw harness, by Maguire and Johnston. The image is of the Pictish Kirriemuir stone, and shows a straw saddle on a horse
Just seen the pdf of my contribution in this years #EXARC #Digest journal and they've done all authors proud.
It was awesome fun to do this project with one of the craftspeople of #UlsterFolkMuseum, because every project goes better with people you learn from
