Experimental activities play an important role in both teaching and research programs carried out in the laboratory. Experimental frameworks related to archaeological questions are organized and done during BA and MA courses of Experimental Archaeology taught by C.Lemorini. Moreover, other experimental sessions are done systematically in the laboratory in order to test hypotheses generated by traces analysis of specific archaeological contexts. The experiments are organized and directed by scholars and PhD candidates with the assistance of MA and BA students of “Sapienza” Università di Roma.Quite often, experimental protocols are organized and carried out in collaboration with experienced artisans that give key input for the proper construction of the experiments. For basketry activities and dying activities we collaborate with Giovanni Morra, Parco Naturale dei Monti Aurunci, Campotosto (LT) and for weaving and textile experiments we collaborate with Assunta Perilli, “La Fonte della Tessitura”, Campotosto (AQ).The experimental sessions organized with students allow them to experience gestures, activities, tools that are not part of their cultural background. Moreover, they take part in the realization of frameworks that are intended to verify hypotheses related to technological and functional questions. Therefore, they learn how to record what they are doing and how to express their impressions on the experiments carried out.

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