This simply reinforces my long held total disdain for archeologists both physical and cultural. Generally most are delusional attention whores whose main talent is weaving the most elaborate tales from the skimpiest of evidence. And I have never, ever heard of a single instance when one of these parasites ever said the three magic words : "I was wrong."
Years ago, our most popular joke (among engineers of all disciplines) was how one of these educated imbeciles would find a single human foot bone and, from that, weave a book length pompous narrative of an entire society, what they ate for breakfast, what diseases (plural) they suffered from and a thousand details only a truly demented neurotic human being could invent. All with a straight face.
Or, as Mark Twain so classically summarized, "Such large returns in conjecture, from such small investment in fact."
I hope these delusional "scientists" at least learned a smidgen of humility.
I was reading a seemingly fascinating article in Nat Geo on an “amazing” fossil dinosaur that they found. They knew how big it was, what it ate, what COLOR it was, how it defended itself, and how it tended its young. Amazing stuff.
And then they showed a picture of the bone fragment. It was about 1” X 2”. Period. The whole article was someone’s imagination. Haven’t picked up a Nat Geo since.