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I'm currently rereading Norman Yoffee's Myths of the Archaic State, and I'm really surprised that this short passage didn't stand out to me when I read it the first time:

'Many of these activities could be called “methodology,” but in order not to bruise the sensibilities of some archaeologists, I call this level not “low-level theory,” as Raab and Goodyear have done, but “basic-level theory” or BLT. The ingredients of BLTs provide sustenance to archaeologists' (Yoffee 2005: 186).

I'm positive someone must have mentioned this in that class, but I don't remember it. Archaeologists do love BLTs, though.

References
Yoffee, Norman
2005 Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations. New York: Cambridge University Press.