Part of my failure to catch the mood on this thread may be due to me having become so able to cut through the crap in archaelogical articles that I only see the apparent facts without feeling it reflects positively on the modern scene at all. Maybe I have been reading FR too long and have simply developed an auto-filter mechanism when the underlying topic interests me on these types of articles.
It disgusts me even more, now.
Supposedly, they are making the past relevant to the present, through interpretation; but it seems that all the interpretation has to somehow project current PC dogma upon the past, or it isn’t relevant...or at least not published.