[robertlagrant]

This is the intention the previous poster was countering:

> These discoveries suggest that the area’s Indigenous farmers may have dumped their household waste and the remnants of fires onto their fields, using them as compost

[MangoToupe]

Is the intention supposed to be in the quote, or are you trying to show there was no intention implied? I certainly agree with the latter.

[robertlagrant]

I read "using them as compost" as intention