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Humanities > Archaeology > Experimental archaeology

Preferred term

Experimental archaeology  

Definition

  • e:Theory and method 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 [AAT] | f:Méthodes nouvelles où l'archéologie fabrique des objets anciens avec les outils et les procédés anciens pour mieux comprendre les techniques anciens

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Archaeology, experimental
  • Archeology, experimental

Notation

  • 118472

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-PN1N5BZD-L

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