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Archaeological Reflexivity: Examining the Substance of Bone
Department: A&S Archaeology
Researcher: Sarah E. Jackson, Caleigh E. Richissin, Erin E. McCabe, and James Jaehoon Lee
Dataset and Source: 599 Articles that reference 'Bone' in the archaeological journals, Latin American Antiquity and Ancient Mesoamerica
A meta-analysis of large-scale textual data from archaeological publications to identify patterns in language used when writing about the substance of bone. This research is focused on bringing to light assumptions, naturalized categories, and patterned interpretive moves that may direct or impact the ways we interact with our evidence and talk about our research. Are there patterned ways that archaeologists write about artifacts, that become visible when analyzing larger datasets of writing? If so, what underlying ideas shape these shared discursive moves within written academic narratives?