Human bias is inevitable, but another source of bias in the representation of history has to do with the transitory nature of the materials themselves.
Other archaeologists have identified the immediate cause of this abandonment to be a series of short growing seasons that would have put pressure on corn production at that high an altitude.
The same word that offended a number of listeners was likely the hook that turned a few of these troubled youth-for however short a time-to an interest in an academic aspect of their language.