Shelley Wachsmann, an Israeli government archaeologist, explained: "He reads wood like you read a newspaper.
Archaeologists can explain the rocks, Fox Mulder tackled the extraterrestrials, and accountants will translate your 1040.
Archaeologists' efforts to explain the social and ideological roles of artifacts have drawn largely from anthropological theory and have turned on a functional theme attributable to Emile Durkheim.
For many archaeologists, these factors explain why human settlements higher than about 13,100 feet and older than 11,500 years of age have eluded them.
"The conditions for maize cultivation were good and the inhabitants of the area ate little else," the British archaeologist Alan K. Outram explains in his wide-ranging essay about hunter-gatherers and early farming cultures.
He added: "Blick Mead could explain what archaeologists have been searching for for centuries – an answer to the story of Stonehenge's past.
"Blick Mead could explain what archaeologists have been searching for for centuries – an answer to the story of Stonehenge's past," said David Jacques, the archaeologist at the University of Buckingham who discovered the encampment.
"The reason why paleoanthropology is so exciting is that occasionally it throws up something wholly unexpected that we can't explain," says archaeologist Robin Dennell of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
The findings, published in the November issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, may explain why many archaeologists estimate that prehistoric people got most of their calories from lean meat or fish when modern humans would be literally poisoned by such a protein-heavy diet.
Archaeologists have proffered various hypotheses to explain movement of ceramic vessels or the carved wooden paddles used in the manufacture of these vessels.
