In a message dated 10/6/2006 8:04:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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As a  master blacksmith once told me, "It seems to me that
archaeologists make a  lot of unwarranted assumptions." We have all had
the experience of being  dead sure of something that we later find to
have been dead wrong!  



Blacksmiths too can be dead wrong. I am reminded that during the period of  
change from true wrought iron to steel the blacksmiths suffered astounding  
failure rates in welding the metals. By analogy, anthropologists,  
archaeologists, and historians suffer a high failure rate until they accumulate  and retain 
sufficient training to understand what their eyes and minds  record.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.