Editing Experimental archaeology (section)

== Variations ==
[[File:Guedelon forge, France.jpg|thumb|Experimental medieval forge]]
Other types of experimental archaeology may involve burying modern replica artifacts and [[ecofact]]s for varying lengths of time to analyse the post-depositional effects on them. Other archaeologists have built modern [[Earthworks (engineering)|earthworks]] and measured the effects of silting in the ditches and weathering and subsidence on the banks to understand better how ancient monuments would have looked. One example is [[Overton Down]] in England.

The work of [[flintknapper]]s is also a kind of experimental archaeology as much has been learnt about the many different types of flint tools through the hands-on approach of actually making them. Experimental archaeologists have equipped modern professional butchers, archers and lumberjacks with replica flint tools to judge how effective they would have been for certain tasks. Use wear traces on the modern flint tools are compared to similar traces on archaeological artifacts, making probability hypotheses on the possible kind of use feasible. [[Hand axe]]s have been shown to be particularly effective at cutting animal meat from the bone and jointing it.

Another field of experimental archaeology is illustrated by the studies of the stone flaking abilities of humans ("novice knapper" studies) and of non-human primates. In the latter case it has been shown that, after human demonstrations, enculturated [[bonobo]]s are able to produce modified cores and flaked stones which are morphologically similar to early lithic industries in East Africa.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Schick|first1=Kathy|last2=Toth|first2=Nicholas|last3=Garufi|first3=Gary|last4=Savage-Rumbaugh|first4=E. Sue|last5=Rumbaugh|first5=Duane|last6=Seveik|first6=Rose|title=Continuing Insestigations into the Stone Tool-making and Tool-using Capabilities of a Bonobo (Pan panisus)|journal=Journal of Archaeological Science|date=1999|volume=26|issue=7|pages=821–832|doi=10.1006/jasc.1998.0350}}<!--|access-date=20 October 2014--></ref>

Historians working on costume and fashion have made reconstructions of garments, including [[farthingale]]s, which can give a better understanding of clothing types and textile crafts known only from archival records or depictions in portraits.<ref>Sarah A. Bendall, ''Shaping Feminity: Foundation Garments the Body and Women in Early Modern England'' (Bloomsbury, 2022), pp. 145–152.</ref>