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<pre>--- In OliveOil@y..., "P Caird" <caird@o...> wrote:
> More than happy to help with Australian oil.
>
> BTW what is an "experimental archaeologist "?
>
> Let me know actual delivery address off-line to the site below.
>

Hi,
Thanks for that, I'll be in touch off list to discuss details.
An experimental archaeologist is an archaeologist who tentatively
tries out the technologies and products of the past in an attempt to
get a better understanding of how things worked and why people chose
certain methods. Most commonly you'll see experimental archaeologists
on documentaries doing things like casting bronze or knapping flints.
To try and reproduce something as elusive as scent based on
fragmentary documentary and physical eveidence is a bit of a 'black
art' even amongst experimental archaeologists, but I've always held
that an experiment should raise as many quastions as it answers, and
hopefully this project will help suggest some new lines of approach
to what is a very poorly understood area. (In practice it means
wandering round smelling like a cross between a spice souk and a
hoohaa's parlour and having vats of stuff going gloop in the
background all the time...)
Sally
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