Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each famous experiment to what it established.
- Flint-knapping replication
- Experimental earthworks
- Replica kiln firings
- Ocean voyaging replicas
- Temperatures ancient pottery required
- How ditches silt and mounds slump over decades
- Ancient craft could cross open sea
- Handaxes demand hours of planned skill
Hints
- Each experiment tested one plausible story.
- One concerned whether a proposed voyage was physically possible.
Show the answer
- Flint-knapping replication → Handaxes demand hours of planned skill
- Experimental earthworks → How ditches silt and mounds slump over decades
- Replica kiln firings → Temperatures ancient pottery required
- Ocean voyaging replicas → Ancient craft could cross open sea
Why
Each experiment converted a plausible story into a tested one, or killed it. That is the whole point of doing the past rather than imagining it.
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