The anthropologist fills in with comparisons to other cultures and is forced to rely on theories that have no evidential basis whatsoever, the old notion of universal stages of development or the claim that cultural resemblances are based on some unrecognized past contact between groups.
The anthropologist fills in with comparisons to other cultures. The anthropologist is forced to rely on theories that cultural resemblances are based on some unrecognized past contact between groups. The anthropologist is forced to rely on the old notion of universal stages of development that cultural resemblances are based on some unrecognized past contact between groups. The anthropologist is forced to rely on the claim that cultural resemblances are based on some unrecognized past contact between groups. These theories have no evidential basis whatsoever.