Experiments with Past Materialities

Contributions: 1) The experimentation of technologies linked to vegetable food: the production of flour at Bilancino (Florence Italy) 30.000 BP (Biancamaria Aranguren and Anna Revedin); 2) Daily practices of prehistoric Europe during the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition (Jacqui Wood); 3) New experimental approaches on lithic projectile macro-wear analysis: A case study (Cinzia Loi and Vittorio Brizzi); 4) Experiments and technological analyses on Neolithic ceramics from Lamezia plain, Calabria (Rocco Purri and Simona Scarcella); 5) Storage vessels in the Mediterranean area in the late Middle Ages: Interpreting technical devices with reference to ethnographic and historical sources (Marta Caroscio); 6) An archaeology of the Iron Age coastal salt industry: The essential role of experiment (Marie-Yvane Daire, Catherine Bizien-Jaglin and Anna Baudry); 7) Experiments with Ancient Copper Smelting Technologies (Stanislav Grigoriev); 8) Shropshire Council Experimental Archaeology in Charcoal Burning and Iron Smelting (Mick Krupa); 9) The Minoan Double-V-Necked Dress (Bernice R. Jones); 10) Using Experimental Archaeology to answer the unanswerable: A case study using Roman Dyeing (Heather Hopkins); 11) Traces of fire and pieces of clay: A preliminary approach to landscape through the remains of Neolithic burnt houses (Styliani Kaltsogianni); 12) Harmony of the material and the immaterial in prehistoric monuments. Experimental investigation of ancient light and shadow interaction: A case study (Emília Pásztor); 13) Experimenting technological rituals (Dragos Gheorghiu); 14) Between research and tourism: A case of integrated experimental archaeology in Sardinia (M. G. Melis, R. Cappai, L. Doro, L. Manca and S. Piras); 15) The role of experiment as an educational approach in maritime archaeology (Francesca Oliveri).