A critical approach to methodology is important, but more important I think is acknowledging that in archaeology as in textual analysis when we are reconstructing something, whether physical artifact or anthropological projection, we are not learning anything new. Rather, we are applying existing or available knowledge to a coherent picture of the subject. These pictures therefore aren't very stable and we are better off entertaining multiple coherent applicable interpretations simultaneously.

So while competing interpretations and models are available and encouraged, keep in mind that it is difficult to think of an archaeological arrangement that could definitively prove the existence of female warriors or inform us on their exact roles and relations, even as there is no possible arrangement that allows us to reject their existence.