Amos - such a romantic!

DaveO - Quite a few people apparently took the article as implying that Thor "faked" his research. I read it as a subtly different thing, perhaps "anthropologically" more damaging.

By seeking specific things, and letting the natives know what he was looking for, he "contaminated" the culture he was "researching." It was largely the "natives" who "brought him what he asked for" that did the "faking," although he probably failed to use good judgement about the "quality" of the finds he reported.

John