“Does archaeology have a reproducibility crisis?”

“Does archaeology have a reproducibility crisis?” September 29, 2016

 

Belarusian archaeological site
I dunno. Is he seriously suggesting that folks such as these, working at a dig site in Belarus, aren’t infallible?  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

Lately, whole scientific fields like psychology and medicine have been rocked by the realization that fraud, sloppiness, bias, and other error-inducing factors are rampant in them to a previously unimaginable degree.

 

Is archaeology in the same boat?

 

A doctoral student in the subject at University College London suggests that it just might be:

 

http://www.joeroe.eu/blog/2016/08/27/does-archaeology-have-a-reproducibility-crisis/

 

Posted from Mentor, Ohio

 

 


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