I don't think that how you feel about a task in the here and now, is any
guarantee of how someone else in another era felt about it. Living
without flush toilets is a different experience when you know in the
back of your mind that you can return to modern conveniences any time
you want.
Furthermore, I would think you'd have to be discovering something new
(to modern eyes). For example, when the 20th person makes an 1850
chemise using original instructions and methods, and it's pretty much
the same process for them as for the first 19 people, is it really
experimental any
What makes it archaeology, as opposed to just learning a task or craft,
even if one of the past?
Fran
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To clarify, I refered to experiential archaeology - that is learning things about the past by doing them. Experimental archeology is, as you say, something somewhat
