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Experimental archaeology

Index Experimental archaeology

Experimental archaeology (also called experiment archaeology and experiential 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. [1]

73 relations: Alps, Archimedes, Artifact (archaeology), Augsburg, Bâton de commandement, BBC, BBC Two, Biofact (archaeology), Bonobo, Bronze Age, Butser Ancient Farm, Campus Galli, Computational fluid dynamics, Damascus steel, Denmark, Discovery Channel, Earthworks (engineering), Edwardian Farm, England, Errett Callahan, Experimental archaeometallurgy, Flint, Guédelon Castle, Hadrian's Wall, Hampshire, Hand axe, Historical reenactment, Hwacha, Iron Age, Janet Stephens, Knapping, Kon-Tiki expedition, Land of Legends (Sagnlandet Lejre), Legionary, Living history, Living in the Past (TV series), Long-term experiment, Madjedbebe, Marcus Junkelmann, Monastery, MythBusters, Ochroma, Overton Down, Ozark Medieval Fortress, PBS, Pembrokeshire, Peru, Plan of Saint Gall, Polynesia, Quartz, ..., Reverse engineering, Ruth Tringham, Salisbury Plain, Secrets of Lost Empires, Secrets of the Castle, South America, Spear, Sri Lanka, Stonehenge, Structure, Tales from the Green Valley, Thor Heyerdahl, Tidewater region, Time Team, Treigny, Trireme, Tudor Monastery Farm, University of Exeter, Verona, Victorian Farm, Vindolanda, Wartime Farm, West Stow. Expand index (23 more) »

Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse (Ἀρχιμήδης) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

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Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact, or artefact (see American and British English spelling differences), is something made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.

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Augsburg

Augsburg (Augschburg) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany.

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Bâton de commandement

A bâton de commandement, bâton percé or perforated baton is a name given by archaeologists to a particular prehistoric artifact that has been much debated.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Biofact (archaeology)

In archaeology, a biofact (or ecofact) is organic material found at an archaeological site that carries archaeological significance.

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Bonobo

The bonobo (Pan paniscus), formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Butser Ancient Farm

Butser Ancient Farm is an archaeological open-air museum located near Petersfield in Hampshire, southern England.

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Campus Galli

Campus Galli is a Carolingian monastic community under construction in Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Computational fluid dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows.

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Damascus steel

Damascus steel was the forged steel composing the blades of swords smithed in the Near East from ingots of wootz steel.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American pay television channel that is the flagship television property of Discovery Inc., a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.

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Earthworks (engineering)

Earthworks are engineering works created through the processing of parts of the earth's surface involving quantities of soil or unformed rock.

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Edwardian Farm

Edwardian Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in twelve parts, first shown on BBC Two from November 2010 to January 2011.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Errett Callahan

Errett Callahan (born December 17, 1937) is an American archaeologist, flintknapper, and pioneer in the fields of experimental archaeology and lithic replication studies.

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Experimental archaeometallurgy

Experimental archaeometallurgy is a subset of experimental archaeology that specifically involves past metallurgical processes most commonly involving the replication of copper and iron objects as well as testing the methodology behind the production of ancient metals and metal objects.

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Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert.

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Guédelon Castle

Guédelon Castle is a newly built castle construction project located in Treigny, France.

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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall (Vallum Aelium), also called the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hand axe

A hand axe (or handaxe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history.

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Historical reenactment

Historical reenactment (or re-enactment) is an educational or entertainment activity in which people follow a plan to recreate aspects of a historical event or period.

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Hwacha

A hwacha or hwach'a (화차; 火車) (fire cart) was a multiple rocket launcher developed by Korea based on ancient Han Chinese technological innovations, and first deployed in the defence of the Korean peninsula against Japanese invasions in the 1590s.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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Janet Stephens

Janet Stephens is a hairdresser and amateur forensic archaeologist who has reconstructed some of the hairstyles of ancient Rome, attempting to prove that they were not done with wigs, as commonly believed, but with the person's own hair.

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Knapping

Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.

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Kon-Tiki expedition

The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl.

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Land of Legends (Sagnlandet Lejre)

The Land of Legends, Centre for Historical-Archaeological Research and Communication (in Danish "Sagnlandet Lejre" and formerly known as Lejre Experimental Centre) is a 106-acre (43 hectare) archaeological open-air museum situated in the Lejre Municipality, few kilometres west of Roskilde (Denmark).

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Legionary

The Roman legionary (Latin: legionarius, pl. legionarii) was a professional heavy infantryman of the Roman army after the Marian reforms.

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Living history

Living history is an activity that incorporates historical tools, activities and dress into an interactive presentation that seeks to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time.

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Living in the Past (TV series)

Living in the Past was a fly on the wall documentary programme aired by the BBC in 1978 which followed a group of fifteen young volunteers, six couples and three children, recreating an Iron Age settlement, where they sustained themselves for a year, equipped only with the tools, crops and livestock that would have been available in Britain in the 2nd Century BC.

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Long-term experiment

A long-term experiment is an experimental procedure that runs through a long period of time, in order to test a hypothesis or observe a phenomenon that takes place at an extremely slow rate.

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Madjedbebe

Madjedbebe or Malakunanja II is a rock shelter in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Marcus Junkelmann

Marcus Junkelmann (* 2 October 1949 in Munich) is a German historian and experimental archeologist.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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MythBusters

MythBusters is an Australian-American science entertainment television program created by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions.

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Ochroma

Ochroma is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, containing the sole species Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree.

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Overton Down

Overton Down Experimental Earthwork (often referred to simply as Overton Down) is a long-term project in experimental archaeology in Wiltshire, England.

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Ozark Medieval Fortress

Ozark Medieval Fortress is a project designed to construct an accurate replica of a 13th-century French castle in Lead Hill, Arkansas.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire (or; Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Plan of Saint Gall

The Plan of Saint Gall is a famous medieval architectural drawing of a monastic compound dating from the early 9th century.

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Polynesia

Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Quartz

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

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Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, or to extract knowledge from the object; similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon.

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Ruth Tringham

Ruth Tringham (born 14 October, 1940) is an anthropologist, focusing on the archaeology of Neolithic Europe and southwest Asia.

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Salisbury Plain

Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in the south western part of central southern England covering.

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Secrets of Lost Empires

Secrets of Lost Empires is a two-part television series produced by PBS Nova, Boston (WGBH).

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Secrets of the Castle

Secrets of the Castle, or Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom is a British factual television series that first broadcast on BBC Two from 18 November to 17 December 2014.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.

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Structure

Structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized.

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Tales from the Green Valley

Tales from the Green Valley is a British historical documentary TV series in 12 parts, first shown on BBC Two from 19 August to 4 November 2005.

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Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 – April 18, 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography.

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Tidewater region

The Tidewater region is a geographic area of southeast Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, part of the Atlantic coastal plain in the United States of America.

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Time Team

Time Team was a British television series that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014.

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Treigny

Treigny is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.

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Trireme

A trireme (derived from Latin: trirēmis "with three banks of oars"; τριήρης triērēs, literally "three-rower") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.

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Tudor Monastery Farm

Tudor Monastery Farm is a British factual television series, first broadcast on BBC Two on 13 November 2013.

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University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a public research university in Exeter, Devon, South West England, United Kingdom.

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Verona

Verona (Venetian: Verona or Veròna) is a city on the Adige river in Veneto, Italy, with approximately 257,000 inhabitants and one of the seven provincial capitals of the region.

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Victorian Farm

Victorian Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in six parts, first shown on BBC Two in January 2009, and followed by three Christmas-themed parts in December of the same year.

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Vindolanda

VindolandaBritish windo- 'fair, white, blessed', landa 'enclosure/meadow/prairie/grassy plain' (the modern Welsh word would be something like gwynlan, and the modern Gaelic word fionnlann). was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England.

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Wartime Farm

Wartime Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in eight parts in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted, first broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012.

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West Stow

West Stow is a small village and civil parish in West Suffolk, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_archaeology

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