How do the things that we make and use either every day or on special occasions encode our beliefs or cultural values. Humans have always had this creative impulse to make things. We make shelter. We make tools. We make bodily adornment.And we make things of spiritual importance. As an archaeologist, my job is to determine how we should look at these things and how we can learn from ancestral ways of making, especially related to beliefs, politics or values. In other words, how do we as modern observers lea ...