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Experimental Archeology
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How do you prove your controversial theory about a feat that seems almost mythic in quality, despite the fact that every expert in the field in question says it's impossible? By doing it yourself! All you have to do is recreate the situation and prove that it really was possible. One common variant of this involves proving that a voyage in an ancient story could really have happened. This tends to involve building a replica of the vehicle in question as closely as possible (although modern creature comforts often tend to make their way into the finished work), finding a crew as loopy as you are, and riding your way to vindication. Provided, of course, you live to tell the tale. Adventurer Archaeologist characters may be prone to trying out this method. Experimental Archaeology is a real science. It can't be used to prove how or why something was done, but can demonstrate that a theory is possible. In Real Life it's also used for rather less exciting things than replicating ancient pyramids — such as cutting bones with stone tools and photographing the tools under a microscope afterwards. Don't expect fiction to focus on this sort of experimentation. |
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Miraculous Ladybug: This is what motivates Jahlil Kubdel's akumatization into the Pharoah. He's done research that indicates Tutankhamen had found a way to bring Nefertiti back to life and wants to test it with the artifacts from the Louvre. His father, the curator of the Egyptian exhibit, refuses. Of course, it turns out that the ritual required not only 100 living mummies (it's not clear how Jahlil was planning to acquire them without Hawk Moth's intervention) but also human sacrifice. | |
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Parodied in The Discworld Almanack, which says that in 1754 AM, Erasmus Wand set sail for the Brown Islands in a boat made from pig bladders in order to prove a theory. And if his theory was that such a craft would sink almost immediately, he succeeded. | |
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National Geographic is fond of doing this, whether it's recreating Odysseus' voyage or trying to build a pyramid using only technology available to Ancient Egyptians. | |
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In Codex Alera one member of the Historical Society sets out to create several things that conventional wisdom claims could only have been done using furycraft to provide credence for his theory that the Alerans didn't have it when they first arrived. This includes things like designing pulleys as opposed to just getting Earthcrafters to do the heavy lifting. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Explorers," Ben and Jake Sisko sail to Cardassia in a Bajoran lightship that travels on solar winds to show a supposed ancient voyage was possible. In a small twist, the Cardassians scoff at the idea that Bajorans were able to make that journey, but as soon as the Siskos were able to do it themselves, the Cardassians apparently decided to reveal that they "coincidentally" (read: kept under wraps until now) found the remains of an ancient Bajoran lightship to share in the glory of Sisko's feat by providing proof that the ancient voyage actually happened. It was one of the finer moments in Gul Dukat's 'anti-hero' period; he's not entirely pleased that Sisko embarrassed the Cardassian people by accomplishing that which they maintained was impossible, but he's gracious enough. Thanks to Marc Alaimo's amazing ability to handle Dukat's complex characterization, particularly attentive viewers will even detect a subtext of honest sincerity and admiration in his 'congratulations' speech (he even arranged a nice fireworks show for them on their arrival). | |
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One of these plots becomes the center of One Piece's Skypeia saga, where the crew, almost as an afterthought, seeks to prove that the hero of an old fairy tale was not a liar. He wasn't. | |
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Heinrich Schliemann tested a possible candidate for the historical Troy by running around the city walls, based on a passage in The Iliad. | |
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A regular part of Time Team, although rarely on the same scale as some of the other examples (Phil Harding is known as one of Britain's finest flint-knappers). One of the bigger examples, however, was recreating Seahenge. | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures parodied Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition in "Voyage of the Kon-Ducki," in which Plucky Duck proves that his ancestors sailed to Salinas, California in the 1970s (instead of flying). | |
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Pretty much the entire point of Mythbusters, although fairly rarely regarding actual voyages, with notable instances of such being the reenactment of the famous Alcatraz Escape (Turns out, you can (though it would take a bit of luck and almost-ideal conditions)), and seeing if it was possible to launch a Chinese astronomer into orbit with regular rockets (Turns out you can't). While never used for an actual voyage, they did try making a boat out of newspaper and ice, based on a material developed during WWII to build ships quickly and cheaply. It works, until it starts to melt. |
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Parodied in Monty Python's Flying Circus: "Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris's Ford Popular" tests a theory that the population of Hounslow (a suburb of London) originally emigrated from Surbiton (another London suburb). The sketch actually mentions the Kon-Tiki (see the Real Life section below) in the beginning. | |
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