Experimental Archaeology

Ancient Raised Field Agriculture
An experimental archaeology project in Bolivia, using ancient farming techniques, has raised more than just corn, beans, and squash.

Arch-Experiment
An electronic discussion list to encourage the exchange of information between groups carrying out experimental archaeology in Britain.

Butser Ancient Farm
An open air research laboratory where the Romano-Celtic world is being explored by full scale experiment, including earthworks, fields and crops, pottery making, metal and charcoal production.

EXARC
EXARC (European Exchange on Archaeological Research and Communication) is an organization based to unite people doing similar research goals in open air museums and experimental archaeology. Several English language projects have been developed since its inception, and this very interesting group continues to grow and add members, projects and publications.

Experimental Archaeology
Experimental archaeology is a branch of archaeological study that replicates or attempts to replicate past processes to understand how the deposits came about.

Great Lakes Lithics
A great source for flint knappers, including materials, tools, and supplies; also sells beginner's kits.

Lejre Experimental Centre
The Lejre Experimental Centre has a reconstructed Iron Age (Viking) village, and conducts replicative experiments on everything from boat construction to the Egtved burial. Danish and English.

Quantifying the Functional Utility of Handaxe Symmetry
An article on ADS discusses recent experimental archaeology using handaxes, to test just how efficient Acheulian tools were, by Anna Machin, Robert Hosfield and Steven Mithen.

Roger Grace's Experimental Archaeology Page
Another absolutely terrific use of the web from Roger Grace of the University of Oslo, Norway, a page describing replicative experiments and usewear analyses for stone tools.  (site under reconstruction as of July 2010)