Experiment documentation
Performing archeological experiments makes sense only when they are carefully documented. The majority of experiments conducted by the members of the Circle of Experimental Primeval Archeology is described on specially prepared cards. Different types of experiments require of course taking into account different variables, what made it necessary to prepare several types of cards. For example, a card of a flint tool used in the course of experimental treatment of a material must contain information on: aim of experiment (if it is a part of a larger project), conditions and methodology of work (type of material, its hardness, quality, ways of preparation for treatment, methods of treatment etc.) and also information on the tool itself (material it was made of, morphology, mount etc.). In the course of experiment on the card documented are (with a description and drawings) changes on the tool and progress in work. Moreover, there is some space here for the experimenter’s own insights. All the cards are inventoried.
Each experiment performed by CEPA is photographically documented. Taken are photographs documenting the experiment itself, as well as microscopic ones, used later in the course of traceological analyses of primeval tools. The photographs are inventoried and linked to cards of particular experiment.
Each experiment performed by CEPA is photographically documented. Taken are photographs documenting the experiment itself, as well as microscopic ones, used later in the course of traceological analyses of primeval tools. The photographs are inventoried and linked to cards of particular experiment.
