Archaeologist: The allegation that members of the excavation team recovered artifacts outside the authorized site is unfounded. Archaeologists, unlike most treasure hunters, excavate artifacts to publish the results of their findings. But material recovered illegally could not be used in a publication without the illegal act being discovered. So it would be of no use to an archaeologist. The archaeologist's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism because it ['presumes without providing adequate justification that most treasure hunters excavate artifacts to sell them', 'assumes without providing warrant that any use of illegally recovered material is itself illegal', 'ignores the possibility that not all members of the excavation team were archaeologists', 'fails to consider that not all treasure hunters act illegally']