Editing Experimental archaeology (section)

=== Butser Ancient Farm ===
[[File:Stone Age Horton Hall at Butser Ancient Farm.jpg|thumb|Butser Ancient Farm's reconstruction of a Stone Age house found in Hampshire, UK.]]
One of the earliest examples is [[Butser Ancient Farm]], which recreates buildings from UK archaeology to test theories of construction, use, and materials. Today, the site features a working [[Stone Age]] [[farm]], a [[Bronze Age]] [[Roundhouse (dwelling)|roundhouse]], [[Iron Age]] village, [[Roman villa]], and [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] long halls.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/about-us |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Butser Ancient Farm |language=en-US}}</ref> The work carried out at Butser has been instrumental in establishing experimental archaeology as a legitimate archaeological discipline, as well as assisted in bringing study of prehistory to the UK school curriculum.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aston |first=Mick |date=2001-10-05 |title=Obituary: Peter Reynolds |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/oct/05/guardianobituaries.humanities |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>

Butser still carries out [[long-term experiment]]s in prehistoric agriculture, animal husbandry, and manufacturing to test ideas posited by archaeologists, as well as introducing visitors to the discipline.