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Experimental Archaeology Provides Archaeologists with Bridging Arguments, Ways to Make

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Experimental archaeology provides archaeologists with bridging arguments, ways to make inferences about past behavior from material remains. Which of the following is not an example of experimental archaeology?


A) Using British schoolboys to see if they could move stones similar to those used to build Stonehenge.
B) Using a stone tool to scrape hide and then examining microwear present on the tool's edge to determine the type of wear caused by hide-scraping.
C) Using seriation to construct a way to date archaeological sites based on painted pottery styles.
D) Throwing hafted spearpoints into elephant carcasses to determine their capacity for penetration.

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