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Monthly Archives: April 2018

Re-creating a nailed boule

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Jules Lenoir
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Experimental archaeology is an activity in which archaeologists try to re-create or re-enact past technologies or cultures in order to help understand them. In that spirit I decided to try to re-create a nailed boule, a boule cloutée.

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