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Mystery of ancient Roman dodecahedron baffling experts as it goes on display in UK
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Yes, magic, ritual, or religion—the only conceivable purposes for anything archeologists can’t immediately identify.
Just like how the figurines of busty ladies are used for "fertility rituals." I think they were just prehistoric porn.
And by immediately you mean hundreds of people working full time for decades trying to figure it out.
It didn’t take them decades to come up with the idea that they were for magical use, it took them decades to fail to arrive at a better consensus.
It took them decades to thoroughly and methodically rule out other explanations to make sure their initial estimation is accurate.
Archeologists are highly educated professionals that spends a lot of time and effort into research. I don't know why you want to portray them as bumbling idiots that make shit up when they dont know.
He's saying that archaeologists have a tendency to grandiously assign religious or ceremonial purposes to uncovered objects when they should start with mundane purposes first. This object looks like a dice. Therefore, the first potential purpose should be a dice, not a mystical device to contact the Goa'uld.
"A die". "Dice" is the plural.
I’m not portraying archaeologists as making shit up—I’m saying people in general jump to “magic rituals” when archaeologists can’t provide a definitive answer. The person quoted was explicitly speculating, not providing a professional opinion.