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Unfortunately Chaney has ignored my request for a copy of his objections so for now I only have Prang’s side of the argument.
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Beitzel offers up several very good arguments. Still in sum and taking together all I’ve read so far on the subject, I continue to stand with Humphreys (his footnote 2 and my list of 2013-07-27).
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Daugbjerg et al.’s method seems to work after a fashion but its reliability remains doubtful. They limit their trials to very recent mortars or far less than half a half-life in age. At these young ages adsorbed carbon dioxide can safely be dismissed. I don’t see this clearing up doubtful and contested cases.
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Hill and Lark et al. are neither new nor unexpected, but they place the well known criticism of this subsidy-trough on a much more secure footing.
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One outcome in Cruz y Celis Peniche is the clustering of cases on horticulturists in his figure 4. Contrary to what some ethnologists have tried to frame as a Western prejudice, entomophagy seems to be the exception everywhere. It looks like an extreme adaptation to serious lack of protein in the local food resources.
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