Investigation and Experimentation on Ancient Egyptian Tattooing Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Jenny Pászik
Keyword(s):  
Human Skin ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Experimental Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Organic Mixture ◽  
Ancient Egyptian

Summary The aim of this research is to use experimental archaeology and comparative studies in order to obtain a potential answer to the theory that UC 7790 is a set of tattooing implements. Comparing the tools, methods, and inks of other cultures that practice tattooing is a way to offer some guidance regarding the identification of tattooing tools in the archaeological record. The experiment reproduced the original points using the closest modern metal and tested each one with an organic mixture of charcoal and water, and Indian ink as a control ink. The reproduced needles are tested on pigskin and human skin to test efficacy and healing. The experiment proves that UC 7790 may have been tattoo needles as they successfully tattoo human skin and were probably hafted implements.

Loom weights in Archaic South Italy and Sicily: Fice case studies

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 123-155
Author(s):  
Hedvig Landenius Enegren
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Experimental Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Site Specificity ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Tool Technology

Textiles are perishables in the archaeological record unless specific environmental conditions are met. Fortunately, the textile tools used in their manufacture can provide a wealth of information and via experimental archaeology make visible to an extent what has been lost. The article presents and discusses the results obtained in a research project focused on textile tool technologies and identities in the context of settler and indigenous peoples, at select archaeological sites in South Italy and Sicily in the Archaic and Early Classical periods, with an emphasis on loom weights. Despite a common functional tool technology, the examined loom weights reveal an intriguing inter-site specificity, which, it is argued, is the result of hybrid expressions embedded in local traditions. Experimental archaeology testing is applied in the interpretation of the functional qualities of this common artefact.

Comparative studies of the metabolic activation of chrysene in rodent and human skin

1985 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 223-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Weston ◽  
R.M. Hodgson ◽  
A.J. Hewer ◽  
R. Kuroda ◽  
P.L. Grover
Keyword(s):  
Human Skin ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Metabolic Activation

scholarly journals Speculation Made Material: Experimental Archaeology & Maker’s Knowledge

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Adrian Currie
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Experimental Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Testing Hypotheses ◽  
Know How ◽  
Human Skill ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Experimental archaeology is often understood both as testing hypotheses about processes shaping the archaeological record and as generating tacit knowledge. Considering lithic technologies, I examine the relationship between these conceptions. Experimental archaeology is usefully understood via ‘maker’s knowledge’: archaeological experiments generate embodied know-how enabling archaeological hypotheses to be grasped and challenged, further well-positioning archaeologists to generate integrated interpretations. Finally, experimental archaeology involves ‘material speculation’: the constraints and affordances of archaeologists and their materials shape productive exploration of the capacities of objects and human skill in ways relevant to archaeological questions.

The Materiality of Shabtis: Figurines over Four Millennia

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. Howley
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Background ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Human Response ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Egyptian History

Miniature human figurines have inspired many theoretical advances in archaeological literature, centred around universal human reactions to the material affect of their form. However, confirmation that ancient audiences had such reactions to figurines can be difficult to access in the archaeological record. Egyptian shabtis, a type of funerary figurine, allow such reactions to be accessed by the archaeologist due to their widespread use throughout a long period of Egyptian history and their continuing popularity in other cultures since ancient times: evidence consists of a broad range of textual, artistic and archaeological data from many different cultures over a period of roughly 4000 years. This evidence confirms not only that ancient Egyptian craftsmen responded to and sought to maximize the material affect of the shabtis, but that a significant part of the human response to miniature human figurines is indeed conditioned by their material qualities, independent of the figurines’ original religious function and the cultural background of the viewer.

scholarly journals The Textual Illustration of the “Jester Scene” on the Sculptures of Alaca Höyük

1994 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 207-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Ünal
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Question Mark ◽  
Archaeological Objects ◽  
Written Sources

The following article has to be conceived as one of my responses to a long standing and enigmatic question-mark which I have been carrying incessantly in mind since my first acquaintance with cuneiform writing and archaeology: Are there interactive implications between archaeological record and textual context in Hittite Anatolia at all? One might promptly and spontaneously expect that as a principle there must have been close relations between both sorts of data, since, first of all, they are mental and material products of the same people. Why are, then, the results gained from comparisons of archaeological and philological material disappearingly feeble considering that Hittitology is in a very lucky position in being supplied abundantly by both sorts of material? The temporary results gained from the comparative studies by other scholars as well as by myself were often disappointingly meagre. This is one of the reasons why I have frequently pointed out in a pessimistic way inconsistencies between archaeological objects and information supplied by the written sources in Hittite culture.

scholarly journals Theoretical and Epistemological Thoughts on Archaeology and Experimental Lithic Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo G. Nami
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Lithic Technology ◽  
Experimental Archaeology ◽  
Southern Cone ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives

<p><em>In the wide field of archaeology, stone tool remains are one of the main pieces of evidence used for assessing knowledge and understanding of the archaeological record. To cope with its analysis and interpretation as a branch of experimental archaeology, one field of research that has become more notable is experimental lithic technology. Based on experience and development of this discipline in the southern cone of South America, and with the aim of contributing to the growing theoretical perspectives in this field, this paper addresses the theoretical and epistemological issues that deal with theoretical, variability, classification, and deontological concerns.</em><em></em></p>

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