To touch more directly on what several others posts have mentioned (and based on my limited experience of "knew some archeologists in grad school, and have a pa

To touch more directly on what several others posts have mentioned (and based on my limited experience of "knew some archeologists in grad school, and have a passing interesting in the field") "ritual" is the archeologist go-to in place of both "we don't know" and many different flavors of "we're not comfortable with what this might imply". (With examples of the latter including "challenges long-standing assumptions in the field", "touches on taboo modern subjects", and "the rest of this work is good, I don't want to derail everything into a debate on something controversial".)