DARC will be hosting a session at ICMS 2016 in Kalamazoo in May 2016. |If you have been doing exarc and want to talk about it, we'd love to hear from you. Note that a written paper is *NOT* required.
Archaeology & Experiment: Moving beyond the artifacts (papers)
Experimental
archaeology moves beyond the artifacts, allowing researchers to examine
the underlying question of "how" related to artifact finds. Ideally,
experiments can provide a preliminary answer to the question "Does this
theory of how it was done actually work". A keystone of experimental
archaeology (and a differentiator from reenactment/recreation) is that
it follows the scientific method of question, setup, and result -
whether that result is positive or negative. Presentations in this
session will be expected to review all three key elements in the
discussion of their paper. Papers submitted for these sessions would be
good candidates for publication in the EXARC Journal.