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Below are references to academic journals, archaeological societies, and experimental projects that are intended to provide a starting point for further research and practicum preparation. Most of the journals here are easily and freely accessible online through the Brown Library website.
Please feel free to add additional links to the page at the bottom or within the appropriate section.
Academic Journals
Antiquity
American Antiquity
Archaeometry
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Journal of Archaeological Science
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
Journal of Archaeological Research
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Journal of Materials Science
Journal of European Archaeology
Journal of Field Archaeology
Journal of World Prehistory
Historical Archaeology
Historical Metallurgy
IA: The Journal of Industrial Archaeology
Latin American Antiquity
World Archaeology
Ethnohistory
Current Anthropology
Experimental Archaeology Projects or Material Culture / Materials Science Research Groups or Projects
Borregaard, T. 2005 “Experimental kiln firings: why bother?.” Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 3, 23-32. NCEFG 2005.pdf
Borregaard, T. 2006 “Stanley IIc: A third season with the same experimental kiln.” Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 4, 2-17. NCEFG 2006.pdf
Borregaard, T. and Walker, D.J.C. 2003 “Stanley 1: an experimental updraught kiln in Northern California.” Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 1, 2-18. NCEFG 2003.pdf
Borregaard, T. and Walker, D.J.C. 2004 “Stanley II: An experimental updraught kiln in Northern California. .” Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 2, 2-21. NCEFG 2004.pdf
Borregaard, T. and Walker, D.J.C. 2004 “On the positioning and use of thermocouples in experimental kilns.” Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 2, 22-26. NCEFG 2004.pdf
Borregaard, T. and Walker, D.J.C. 2004 “On the use of stone in ancient kilns: Part 1.” Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 2, 27-32. NCEFG 2004.pdf
Borregaard, T. and Walker, D.J.C. 2005 “Stanley IIb: A second season with the same experimental kiln in Northern California.” Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 3, 2-22. NCEFG 2005.pdf
Bryant, G.F. 1970 “Two experimental Romano-British kiln firings at Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire.” Journal of the Scunthorpe Museum Society Vol. 3 Part 1, 1970.
Bryant, G.F. 1971 Experimental Romano-British Kiln Firings at Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire. WEA (Barton-on-Humber Branch) Occasional Paper 1.
Bryant, G.F. 1977 “Experimental Kiln Firings at Barton-on-Humber, S. Humberside 1971”, in Medieval Archaeology 21, 106-123. Bryant1977.pdf
Bryant, G.F. 1979 “Romano-British experimental kiln firings at Barton-on-Humber, England, 1968-1975”, in Acta praehistorica et archaeological 9/10 (1978/9), 13-22.
Cheetham, L. 1983 “An experimental open firing in Colombia”, in Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 1 (1982), 1-4.
Dawson, David, & Kent, Oliver 1984 “Methods of kiln reconstruction”, in Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 2, 13-17. Dawson1984.pdf
Dawson, David, & Kent, Oliver 1985 “Kiln superstructures – the Bickley experiments”, in Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 3, 70-79. Dawson1985.pdf
Dawson, David, & Kent, Oliver 1987 “Experiments in reduction firing: the Bickley project”, in Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 5, 34-41. Gosselain 1992.pdf
Detsicas, A., 1973. Current Research in Romano-British Coarse Pottery. CBA Research Report 10. CBA, London.
Dawson, David, & Kent, Oliver 1999 “Reduction fired low-temperature ceramics”, Journal of Post-Medieval Archaeology 33, 164-178.
Gibson, A., 1983 “Experimental firings on Black Law, in the Cheviot Hills, Northumberland”, in Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 1 (1982), 8-10.
Gibson, A. 1986 “The excavation of an experimental firing area at Stamford Hall, Leicester: 1985”, in Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group, 4, 5-14. Produced at Leicester University.
Greene, J.P. & Johnson, B 1978 “An experimental tile kiln at Norton Priory, Cheshire”, in Medieval Ceramics 2, 30-42.
Gregory, I. 2002 Kiln Building. 2nd Edition. A&C Black, London.
Keen, J. 1999 “The Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne, UK: a reconstruction site built for education,” in Stone & Planel 1999, 229-244.
Mayes, P. 1961 “The firing of a pottery kiln of a Romano-British type at Boston, Lincs.”, in Archaeometry 4, 4-24.
Mayes, P. 1962 “The firing of a second pottery kiln of Romano-British type at Boston, Lincolnshire”, in Archaeometry 5, 80-92.
Mayes, P. 1967 “The Experimental Kilns at Leeds”, in Current Archaeology 4, 94-97.
Steed, E. 1983 “The Building and firing of a single-flue pottery kiln in Wigan, Lancashire”, in Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 1, 26-30.
Taylor, G. 2006 The Phoenix Rises: the reconstruction of a La Tene III-derived, surfacebuilt, Roman kiln at Segedunum, Wallsend. Unpublished report.
Tobert, N. 1982 “Pyrometric readings: an example from Western Sudan”, in the Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 1, 5-7. Watson, F.J. 1958 “Romano-British kiln building and firing a replica”, in Pottery Quarterly 5, 72-75.
Walker, D.J.C 2006 “Experimental Firings: Approaches and Pitfalls.” Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 4, 18-21. NCEFG 2006.pdf
Walker, D.J.C. & Borregaard, T. 2003 “Archaeological Parallels for the NCEFG’s kiln Stanley I”, in Bulletin of the Northern California Experimental Firing Group 1, 19-30. NCEFG 2003.pdf
Wood, N. 2003 “Woodfiring in China. Part 1”, in The Log Book 15, 3-12.
Woods, A., 1982. “Smoke gets in your eyes: patterns, variables and temperature measurement in open firings”, in the Bulletin of the Experimental Firing Group 1, 11-25.
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