Archaeology, Timothy Pauketat asserts, "has an inferiority complex" (2). It is for this reason that archaeologists have often tried to analyze the aspects of mostly material culture they find by applying ethnological theory, or at least they tried to fit their analyses into ethnological concepts. As the title of his book suggests, Pauketat, an archaeologist himself, has some doubts on whether that is such a good idea. In fact, he thinks that it

leads to delusions.