"ritual purposes" is the bane of anyone trying to interpret finds. Because whoever dug it up doesn't say "I don't know what this is" and therefore throws it ope

"ritual purposes" is the bane of anyone trying to interpret finds. Because whoever dug it up doesn't say "I don't know what this is" and therefore throws it open to interpretation, instead they say "ritual purposes" and anyone trying to interpret the find has to start by saying "this isn't a ritual object because...". Archaeologists never have to specify which ritual was involved, or what part in the ritual the object took. Which you have to do for everything else. That one condition would massively improve archaeological find interpretation imho.