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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.
Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.
The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...
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This is a really cool read with lots of very strong results, but "show" doesn't seem like the right word for the specific claim the article makes from the paper. In grad school we had a professor who led the first year seminar who drilled into us the importance of using the right word to communicate inferential strength. "Is consistent with" is weaker than "suggests" is weaker than "shows" is weaker than "proves" (really only mathematicians should use "prove"). Section E3 on this website has a similar hierarchy.
My "speak up in seminar" reflex was going off here because this article jumps one - possibly two - whole levels of inferential strength from what's actually written in the paper.
In the paper, the inferential claims in the "communal effort' part are:
It's possible I missed a stronger inferential claim about the communal aspect - Please correct me if so!
I think "are consistent with" or "suggest" would more accurately communicate the strength of the results. The evidence presented that the drainage system was a communal effort is that the houses were the same size and the graves didn't seem to be differentiated. This seems like absence of evidence for a state authority/hierarchy, not evidence of absence.