because "trash dump" somehow sounds more rational, and we have a continuing
stigma against anything labelled as being a "ritual object" as that was the
old catch-all cop-out, basically meaning "anything we don't have any better
explanation for"?
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From: "Ron May" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Concealed objects in buildings
>What threatens American archaeologists in the
> discovery of these features? Why is it they demand we interpret
> concealment
> features as simple trash dumps?