Experiments with Past Materialities

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cover copyright CONTENTS Introduction: The Position of Experimental Archaeology in theArchaeological Paradigm of the 21st Century The Experimentation of Technologies Linked to Vegetable Food: the Productionof Flour at Bilancino (Florence, Italy) 30,000 BP Daily Practices of Prehistoric Europe during theMesolithic/Neolithic Transition New Approaches to the Experimentationon the Impact of Lithic Projectiles Points Experiments and Technological Analyses on the Neolithic Ceramicsfrom Lamezia Plain, Calabria Storage Vessels in the Mediterranean Area in the Late Middle Ages:Interpreting Technical Devices by Ethnographic and Historical Sources An Archaeology of Coastal Salt Industry: the Essential Role of Experiment Experiments with Ancient Copper Smelting Technologies Shropshire Council Experimental Archaeologyin Charcoal Burning and Iron Smelting The Minoan Double-V-Necked Dress Using Experimental Archaeology to Answer the Unanswerable:A Case Study Using Roman Dyeing Traces of Fire and Pieces of Clay: A Preliminary Landscape Approach throughthe Remains of Neolithic Burnt Houses Harmony of the Material and the Immaterial in Prehistoric MonumentsExperimental Investigation of Ancient Light and Shadow Interaction –A Case Study Experimenting Technological Rituals Between Research and Tourism:A Case of Integrated Experimental Archaeology in Sardinia