Putting our assumptions aside is almost impossible. We’re all constrained by our biases. Feminist archaeology may be slower work, but it is more intimate than the sweeping approach that experts used to take in the past. It requires the archaeologist to let go of certainty and embrace ambiguity. It accepts that even in a village with a strong culture of its own, individuals might have lived in different ways, just as people do now. It forces us to ask whether the social norms we take as given today might not have been the same ten thousand years ago.
