Experimental Archaeology

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The use of experimental methods to test hypotheses about past human behavior and technology.

Quote: "Experimental archaeology is a field of study which attempts to generate and test archaeological hypotheses, usually by replicating or approximating the feasibility of ancient cultures performing various tasks or feats."
Quote: "It employs a number of methods, techniques, analyses, and approaches, based upon archaeological source material such as ancient structures or artifacts."
Quote: "It is distinct from uses of primitive technology without any concern for archaeological or historical study."
Quote: "Living history and historical reenactment, which are generally undertaken as hobbies, are non-archaeological counterparts of this academic discipline."
Quote: "This is sometimes known as reconstruction archaeology or reconstructional archaeology; however, reconstruction implies an exact replica of the past, when it is in fact just one person's idea of the past; the more archaeologically correct term is a working construction of the past."
Quote: "In recent years, experimental archaeology has been featured in several television productions, such as BBC's 'Building the Impossible' and the PBS's Secrets of Lost Empires."
Quote: "Most notable were the attempts to create several of Leonardo da Vinci's designs from his sketchbooks, such as his 15th-century armed fighting vehicle."
Quote: "It attempts to generate and test archaeological hypotheses."
Quote: "Archaeological source material such as ancient structures or artifacts."
Quote: "Methods, techniques, analyses, and approaches."
Quote: "It attempts to generate and test archaeological hypotheses."
Quote: "Living history and historical reenactment, which are generally undertaken as hobbies, are non-archaeological counterparts of this academic discipline."
Quote: "It is distinct from uses of primitive technology without any concern for archaeological or historical study."
Quote: "Creating copies of historical structures using only historically accurate technologies."
Quote: "This academic discipline."
Quote: "To generate and test archaeological hypotheses."
Quote: "Archaeological source material such as ancient structures or artifacts."
Quote: "Leonardo da Vinci's designs from his sketchbooks, such as his 15th-century armed fighting vehicle."
Quote: "BBC's 'Building the Impossible' and the PBS's Secrets of Lost Empires."
Quote: "Reconstruction implies an exact replica of the past, when it is in fact just one person's idea of the past; the more archaeologically correct term is a working construction of the past."