Absolutely. Academics in particular are hyper averse to saying ”we don’t know yet”. They’d much rather establish an unfalsifiable narrative which can mislead an

Absolutely. Academics in particular are hyper averse to saying ”we don’t know yet”. They’d much rather establish an unfalsifiable narrative which can mislead and cause damage for decades, until it can be properly reversed. Archeology is perhaps the best field at turning random early speculations into entrenched dogma. But it happens in all fields.