There is certainly precedent for believing people in academic archaeology use 
their powers to suppress certain lines of information. I know of one 
archaeologist in the Southwest who discovered a certain type of artifact in a famous 
canyon in Arizona and was forced in his thesis project to delete any mention of 
the discovery and then, through employment, forced to further suppress the 
information in the press. On an even grander scale are those geo-archaeologists 
who used their position and power to suppress any discoveries that might 
refute a pre-Clovis argument. You all know their names, famous people who came out 
in the popular news media pooh-poohing discoveries up through the early 1980s. 
As these academic atrocities became public, it is no wonder fiction authors 
pick up the thread in books such as the Da Vinci Code.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.