Practice question · Put in order
Order the steps of a rigorous archaeological experiment.
- Compare the replica traces with the excavated evidence
- Replicate using period-appropriate materials and tools
- Run the process, recording conditions and effort
- Frame a hypothesis about how the technology worked
- Refine or reject the hypothesis on the match
Hints
- An experiment must be able to fail.
- The hypothesis has to exist before anything is replicated.
Show the answer
- Frame a hypothesis about how the technology worked
- Replicate using period-appropriate materials and tools
- Run the process, recording conditions and effort
- Compare the replica traces with the excavated evidence
- Refine or reject the hypothesis on the match
Why
It is only an experiment if it can fail. Hypothesis, replication, measurement, comparison, verdict, the difference between archaeology and historical cosplay.
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