LOL...... ok
Thing is, they make such "positive" statements when they find a few bones. It actually makes me mad that they think their "theory" of what the bones represent is correct.
I used to get an archeology magazine, forget what it was called. One time they had a picture of tiles they uncovered. I saw a completely different picture than they did. Thing is, what I saw was right and they were wrong.
I love archeology. I love the finds of the ancient cultures. I love the discovery of bones 10,000, 20,000, 40,000 etc years old.
A lot of that is the press. I've been doing archaeology for 35 years, and what the press can do with a simple, clear statement is unreal.
One thing I started doing for TV interviews is figure out what I wanted to say, and then to answer most any question with what I wanted to say no matter what the question was. That sometimes worked.
Working with old bones, when they are fragmentary, is difficult. Nobody I know will make too definitive a statement without having some good reason. But when the media gets in to it, all bets are off.