Combating Researcher Bias in Archaeological Investigations of Identity

Summary

There is extensive evidence that people are self-serving in the interpretation of data and are very likely to reach their desired conclusions. Archaeologists have grappled with this issue as it pertains to the construction of meaningful analogs, but there has been little effort to follow through with an evaluation of archaeological analogies. I propose a methodology for combating researcher bias in archaeological analysis and apply it at El Coyote, a Classic Period center in western Honduras.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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