# Outside specialists find the reading persuasive

> Whitley, writing on the 2025 study, treats Boyd's hypothesis as confirmed for the region, and Shafer praised it as rigorous and grounded in ethnography…

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# Outside specialists find the reading persuasive

Whitley, writing on the 2025 study, treats Boyd's hypothesis as confirmed for the region, and Shafer praised it as rigorous and grounded in ethnography and archaeology.

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## What it bears on 1 answer

[The parallels are not shown to be inheritance](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/answers/ANS0DCKQTSD94WC/the-parallels-are-not-shown-to-be-inheritance)

Still possible

AGAINST

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Outside specialists find the reading persuasive [Evidence EVD0DCKS34H1M2X]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCKS34H1M2X
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