Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs by Stephen R. Potter

“both history and prehistory are in fact construction not ‘reconstructions,’ for too much information has been lost at every point in time to make reconstructions possible in either discipline. These notions are clearly consonant with modern anthropology in that we seek knowledge and generalizations based on the careful examination of all relevant evidence, realizing that ‘truth’ is simply the best current hypothesis—a point that indeed characterizes all fields of science.”

-W. Raymond Wood, 1990