# Inspector task sheet

Tsodilo's Python Cave: ritual, resemblance and disputed dates

## 1. Trace the earliest accessible record

For Tsodilo's Python Cave: ritual, resemblance and disputed dates, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable.

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## 2. Investigate the central question

Compare stratigraphy, refitting, heating evidence and dating by identified deposit. Distinguish the age of sediment, tools, wall marks and paintings. Evaluate each group's argument directly rather than counting repeated press stories.

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## 3. Compare explanations without merging evidence

Compare damage, assemblage composition and context against nonritual deposits. Test the proposed associations through dated stratigraphy and refitting. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.

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