The recent success of experimental aspect informative and educational to have given birth at the end of the twentieth century, first in northern Europe and now also in Italy, the need to clarify the terminology to be used.

Experimental Archaeology is a branch of archaeological studies that are carried out by archaeologists according to a specific protocol experimentalists need to respond to questions raised during the analysis. Different activities are activities and reproduction of antique instruments, although in a scientifically correct, but it does not comply with this protocol and should therefore be considered as activities archeotecniche considered imitative activities of archeology.