section_path: Academic sub-disciplines/Experimental archaeology
section_name: Experimental archaeology
paragraph_text: Experimental archaeology
  
  Experimental archaeology represents the application of the experimental method to develop more highly controlled observations of processes that create and impact the archaeological record. In the context of the logical positivism of processualism with its goals of improving the scientific rigor of archaeological epistemologies, the experimental method gained importance. Experimental techniques remain a crucial component to improving the inferential frameworks for interpreting the archaeological record.