Premise maybe valid; analogy sucks (Score 1)

Sure, wiki may offer a cultural snapshot, depending on the proposition underlying the question posed in such an analysis. But that ain't archeology. If the author, a lawyer, would have discussed his wikipedia-as-social-science with an archeologist, or even an anthropologist, he likely would have learned that archeologists don't make "guesses based on random bits and pieces..."; rather they develop hypothesis based on patterns in the distribution of cultural material gathered through the archeological method. And archeologists trained in North America over the past 50 years or so are, in fact, anthropologists first. And, yeah, there are people out there who "...mine (this) treasure trove...", but they are known as looters, not professional archeologists. As an archeologist, I promise to not attempt to explain lawyers without talking with a lawyer first, if lawyers would do likewise with archeologists.