12-11-2012, 03:17 AM
During these years I have learned that "Experimental archeology" is a precise discipline used by some researchers in the Universities. It has some precise protocols in order to study "only" "how objects were made" and sometime also "for what".
As example one of the usual studies is to learn how a arrow can be built with a stone and a wooden shaft using only period tools. If modern tools are used this would be downgraded to simple "reconstrucion".
Because of the word "experimental" this discipline cannot admit practices like sports (marches, battles, etc.) were the human factor is predominant and would avoid objective results or seriously limit them. So I use to say just "experiments".
Reenactment, living History, etc. IMO have all, more or less, the same meaning, even if "reenactment" sounds to me better for filology.
As example one of the usual studies is to learn how a arrow can be built with a stone and a wooden shaft using only period tools. If modern tools are used this would be downgraded to simple "reconstrucion".
Because of the word "experimental" this discipline cannot admit practices like sports (marches, battles, etc.) were the human factor is predominant and would avoid objective results or seriously limit them. So I use to say just "experiments".
Reenactment, living History, etc. IMO have all, more or less, the same meaning, even if "reenactment" sounds to me better for filology.
