Non-aDNA Explainer Recovery¶
Mixed repositories often drift toward the noisiest or most technically difficult domain. In this project, that is usually animal ancient DNA recovery. When that happens, the quieter source families can remain present in the tree while disappearing from public understanding.
That is a documentation failure, not a small stylistic problem. If pollen, archaeology, boundary, and human-context pages are thinner than the animal recovery story, the public surface stops describing what the repository is actually for.
Why Recovery Was Needed¶
Pollen, archaeology, human release context, and geography are not decorative support layers. They are part of the product's core explanatory structure. If their pages read like stubs or internal notes, readers are pushed toward the false idea that only the hardest recovery surface really matters.
What This Page Signals¶
- non-aDNA context remains part of the core product
- contextual source pages deserve the same reader-facing clarity as the harder recovery surfaces
- handbook breadth is a credibility issue, not just a writing preference
What Recovery Means On The Public Surface¶
Explainer recovery means the repository keeps the quieter families readable in their own right. A reader should be able to understand why a pollen family, an archaeology family, a boundary layer, or a human release family exists before being asked to inspect the file tree behind it.
That is how a mixed-evidence public product stays coherent instead of turning into one domain with several underexplained attachments.