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Contemporary Archaeology and the Importance of Writing Skills (Module 02)

	Principle 2: Diverse Interests - Descendant communities and the scientific community compete 
	    for and have vested interests interests in the nonrenewable resources of the past.

		Discussion - Fiction writing utilizes a popular public venue (one seldom employed by professional 
		archaeologists) to present grounded, accountable (with endnotes) accounts of past human life as 
		grounded and accountable through archaeological, ethnohistoric, ethnographic sources (with 
		endnotes).


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