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Experimental archaeology

Scope note

Specific theory and method of archaeology, involving the controlled testing of hypotheses about practical aspects of past societies, such as the duplication of known artifacts, effects, or processes, the building of theoretical models simulating past circumstances that are then observed in actual operation through time, and the collection and interpretation of ethnographic data from modern peoples for the information this gives on archaeological questions.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000252681

Broader Terms used

archaeology

Narrower Terms used

ethnoarchaeology

Created

13yrs ago

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