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Excellent message, Judy, and precisely right. Evelyn Duke Brandenberger did a breathtaking amount of research, and in general presents the documentation that she found accurately. It is at the interpretative level that the problems occur, and careful readers can avoid pitfalls by simply paying attention to what is actually being said. No matter how confident she sounds in her interpretation, it is our responsibility to think for ourselves.
The other very important point that you make -- don't get too attached to a theory. Years ago when I was not long out of graduate school I went to talk to a very senior person in Southwestern archaeology about what I'd found on a major project that I was doing. I was very nervous. My findings flatly contradicted his conclusions years earlier. His response was that it was great to have that straightened out. I guess my relief that he wasn't upset showed. He went on to say that no good ever comes of digging in one's heels in the face of data. He was so right.
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