Archaeology of Death

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Comment by Sara Croft on December 2, 2009 at 5:56pm

Well tell me how it goes with what ever you build

Comment by Grace Stuart on December 2, 2009 at 5:44pm

wow thats awsome!! yea its just finding the resources necesary would be like nigh on impossible around where id be building it!! Ireland has very very little forest cover and i would need loads of sally rods (hazel saplings) for the wattling. i just dont think i could find enough!!!
might have to settle for making a Fulacht Fiadh (Irish bronze age water heating sites) and trying to cook a joint of meat..... and make beer in it LOL!!

Comment by Sara Croft on December 1, 2009 at 11:03am

You should build it and see what it is like.

I know people here in Canada that build large Mongolian huts in the summer and live in them.

Comment by Grace Stuart on December 1, 2009 at 10:33am

yea..it also laves scope for work in experimental archaeology!!! seems like great fun id love to give it a go!! ive been saying for ages me and my boyfriend (hes an archaeologist too) should build a bronze age style round house in his parents garden, just to see wat it would be like!! would be fun, bu Irelands weather is pretty terrible the last while...floods everywhere...so thats out for the moment anyway!!!

Comment by Sara Croft on December 1, 2009 at 7:47am

It allows you to guess about the people.

Who they were, what they we like, what they thought about.
In away you learn more about them because you have to think about them on a human level, what they were as people.

Sure I love the mystery of Egypt, and Greeks and Romans rule when it comes to War and Conquest. But we know what they were like, what they said and thought.

But we know very little about the prehistoric people. To want to know how they lived their lives is Archaeology, to want to know what they were like as a person is human.

Comment by Grace Stuart on November 30, 2009 at 5:15pm

ha ha!! yea...i think its that having written histories kinda takes some of the fun and mystery outta it or something!!! LOL!

Comment by Sara Croft on November 30, 2009 at 4:21pm

there is something about prehistoric archaeology that makes it all
worth-whill, to me it's the fact that we know little to none about the people who lived in that time, and yet we learn so much

Comment by Grace Stuart on November 30, 2009 at 3:51pm

Neolithic..yea...i much prefer the study of prehistoric archaeological periods!!! here in Ireland Neolithic is probably one of the most studied periods, becaues most of the megalithic structures in the country are Neolithic, so theres been alot of study in that area!

Comment by Sara Croft on November 30, 2009 at 1:10pm

I grew up with it

My mother studied Classics at University and when she couldn't find a sitter I would have to join her in class it was fun for me.

But I would say the Neolithic era is my favorite the "Neolithic Heads" they found in Jericho are what got me interested in Archaeology.

Comment by Grace Stuart on November 30, 2009 at 12:55pm

what areas of archaeology are you most interested in?

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