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Harris Anthropological Research LLC

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Delving into Humanity's Insights. Rising to Today's Challenges.

What does HAR do? ​

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Services

At Harris Anthropological Research LLC (HAR), we help businesses, institutions, and communities build stronger customer relationships and stay ahead in a changing market through research-driven, multi-disciplinary insights. Our User Experience Research (UXR), Business Intelligence Analytics (BIA), and Cultural Heritage Research uncover not just what your data says, but see what it is missing and why it matters—ensuring strategic decisions are holistic, actionable, and aligned with real-world dynamics.


Unlike traditional consulting firms, HAR integrates human-centered research and cutting-edge analytics to help clients optimize customer experiences, refine business strategies, or preserve cultural heritage. Whether you're a tech startup shaping the future or a small business navigating growth, our insights fuel smarter decisions, market adaptability, and lasting connections with your audience—ensuring your business thrives in an evolving landscape. Explore what we offer below for more detail. 

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  • User Research & Behavioral Insights - Know Your Customer Like Never Before

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​Your customers are telling you what they need—HAR helps you listen effectively. Through interviews, surveys, ethnographic studies, content analysis, persona development, and contextual inquiries, we uncover the motivations, frustrations, and hidden behaviors that shape user experiences. We go beyond surface-level feedback, delivering deep, actionable insights that guide smarter business decisions and keep your customers happy by making what you offer more user-friendly.

  • Usability Testing & Task Evaluation - Smooth Out Every Interaction, Maximize Conversions

Every hesitation, frustration, and abandoned action in the user journey costs you business. HAR’s usability testing, competitor audits, and behavioral mapping pinpoint where users struggle—and why. We don’t just fix inefficiencies; we create intuitive, frictionless interactions that turn visitors into loyal customers.

  • UX Design & Prototyping – Build with Confidence, Test with Precision

Your vision deserves more than guesswork. HAR ensures every wireframe, interactive prototype, and redesign is informed by real user data and behavioral science. Whether refining your digital presence or launching a new product, our structured approach ensures every design decision is strategic, tested, responsibly designed, and optimized for success.

  • Information Architecture & Spatial Mapping – Seamless Navigation in Digital & Physical Spaces

Clarity in structure and flow keeps users engaged—whether on a website or in a physical space. HAR refines navigation, layout, and content organization through Behavioral Mapping, Spatial Analysis, Card Sorting, User Journey Mapping, and Information Architecture, ensuring users intuitively find what they need, fast.

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  • Data Visualization & Integrity – Making Insights Work for You

Messy data leads to bad decisions. HAR ensures clean, validated datasets while transforming complex analytics into intuitive dashboards and visual storytelling that engage stakeholders and simplify strategic thinking.

  • Deep-Dive Analysis & Reporting – Make Informed, Confident Decisions

Numbers without context don’t drive decisions—HAR makes data work for you by uncovering hidden patterns, trends, and opportunities through rigorous analysis. Our In-Depth Analysis Service provides customized diagnostic reports tailored to your business’s specific needs—whether identifying market trends, customer behaviors, or operational inefficiencies. HAR doesn’t just give you numbers—we deliver clear, data-backed explanations that transform information into actionable strategy. For businesses needing ongoing performance monitoring, our Simple Report Service offers streamlined, digestible insights that highlight key metrics, revenue trends, and growth opportunities—keeping decision-makers informed without the noise.

  • Data Discovery & Predictive Intelligence – Stay Ahead of the Curve​

Success depends on foresight—knowing what’s coming before it happens. HAR’s Automated Discovery Service uncovers hidden patterns, emerging trends, and potential disruptions, giving businesses the early insights needed to make smarter decisions. With Predictive Analysis, we transform historical data into strategic foresight, helping small businesses anticipate risks, seize opportunities, ensure long-term sustainability, and plan with confidence. For businesses needing ongoing performance monitoring, our Simple Report Service offers streamlined, digestible insights that highlight key metrics, revenue trends, and growth opportunities—keeping decision-makers informed without the noise.

  • Growth Optimization & Strategic Decision-Making – Data That Drives Action

Growth isn’t just about attracting more customers—it’s about understanding what drives engagement, loyalty, and long-term success. HAR’s Integrated Growth Optimization combines user behavior insights, feedback trends, and performance analytics to uncover missed opportunities, revenue drivers, and market advantages. By merging UX and BI, our UX-BI Optimization Service refines digital experiences, ensuring every interaction is designed to maximize engagement, streamline efficiency, and convert interest into action.

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  • Cultural Resources Assessment - Compliance, Feasibility & Risk Analysis 

Successfully navigating cultural resource laws requires more than just meeting compliance standards—it demands strategic foresight to avoid costly delays, unexpected redesigns, and regulatory pitfalls. At Harris Anthropological Research (HAR), we provide comprehensive assessments that go beyond basic records checks, ensuring your project is both legally sound and culturally responsible. Our Cultural Resources Assessment acts as a fatal flaw analysis, feasibility study, regulatory risk analysis, constraints mapping, and site selection study—all in one. By identifying potential challenges early, we help businesses, planners, developers, attorneys, and organizations proactively address risks, ensuring smooth project approvals while safeguarding heritage.

  • Artifact Analysis and Identification – Preserve the Past with Precision

Artifacts aren’t just objects—they hold stories, significance, and invaluable cultural insights. At Harris Anthropological Research (HAR), we specialize in expert artifact identification and analysis, ensuring every piece is carefully examined, documented, and understood. Whether you’re a private collector, museum curator, attorney, Tribal organization, or researcher, we provide detailed assessments and historical context that bring artifacts to life. Our Cultural Resources Assessment acts as a fatal flaw analysis, feasibility study, regulatory risk analysis, constraints mapping, and site selection study—all in one. By identifying potential challenges early, we help businesses, planners, developers, attorneys, and organizations proactively address risks, ensuring smooth project approvals while safeguarding heritage.

  • Cultural Property Legal Consulting – Expert Insights for Complex Cases

Navigating cultural property law requires deep expertise in archaeology, compliance frameworks, and historical preservation. HAR provides specialized consulting for attorneys, offering research-backed insights, regulatory guidance, and strategic expertise to strengthen legal arguments, case evaluations, and litigation strategy. Whether assessing archaeological practice, compliance requirements, or administrative procedures, HAR delivers precise, authoritative expertise to support informed legal decision-making. As an expert witness, we provide courtroom testimony, litigation support, and compliance analysis, ensuring complex legal issues are presented with clarity, accuracy, and credibility.Our Cultural Resources Assessment acts as a fatal flaw analysis, feasibility study, regulatory risk analysis, constraints mapping, and site selection study—all in one. By identifying potential challenges early, we help businesses, planners, developers, attorneys, and organizations proactively address risks, ensuring smooth project approvals while safeguarding heritage.

  • Oral History Interviews - Preserving Voices & Cultural Heritage​

Oral histories are more than memories—they are essential records of lived experiences, community identity, and historical continuity. At Harris Anthropological Research (HAR), we specialize in expert oral history interviews, ensuring stories are documented with accuracy, sensitivity, and cultural integrity. Whether for historic preservation, archaeological site research, disaster recovery planning, or Section 106 compliance, HAR helps individuals and organizations capture narratives that shape history.

  • Adult Cultural Heritage Education - Advanced Learning for Professionals & Adult Learners

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Cultural heritage education should inspire curiosity, foster critical thinking, and equip professionals with the expertise to lead in archaeology, preservation, policy, and resource management. At Harris Anthropological Research (HAR), we offer structured, self-paced courses designed for depth and career growth, integrating real-world case studies, interdisciplinary analysis, and ethical stewardship. Our five-tier system allows learners to advance at their own pace while gaining practical skills in cultural property law, archaeological theory, landscape archaeology, biocultural heritage, and heritage preservation. With engaging video content, experiential exercises, and applied research frameworks, HAR ensures education is immersive, thought-provoking, and career-enhancing. Expand your knowledge and refine your expertise—enroll with HAR today.

  • Homeschool Social Sciences Classes - Engaging, Inquiry-Based Learning for Young Thinkers

Harris Anthropological Research (HAR) offers immersive, homeschool-friendly social sciences courses taught by a professional archaeologist, designed to spark curiosity and critical thinking. Students actively engage with anthropology, archaeology, civics, and historical research through hands-on exercises like artifact analysis, site mapping, ethnographic observation, and primary source investigations, making history relevant and applied. Courses such as Intro to Archaeology, Civics/Government I & II, and U.S. Archaeology I–VII explore cultural heritage from early migrations to industrial America, connecting past discoveries to modern discussions on sustainability, technology, and culture shifts. Each course includes structured lessons, engaging discussions, documentary-style videos, assessments, and certificates of completion, with some qualifying for academic credit in select locations. HAR ensures students develop reasoning skills and historical awareness—bringing cultural heritage to life through inquiry-based learning. Enroll today and make history an active part of your homeschool social science curriculum.

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