“This is not to disagree with your point, but to add a thought. The re-creator, given a predetermined task to create a young woman warrior, actually came up with a face of a man, eh? Maybe the recreation science is better than we might have guessed.”
On the other hand, it might heavily suggest that a lot of what passes for science in archeology is nothing more than wish-it-were-ism and personal fetish fulfillment by the practitioners just as we see in the current public version of climate science.
Seems to me we’re reborning the age of phrenology and the “science supported” ideologies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Perhaps you are right. At least archaeology isn’t trying to impose punitive regulations like the alarmists. I was kinda impressed by the androgynous outcome in the reconstruction.