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It's a matter of perspective I suppose. By that definition I'd consider the stones a MacGuffin because, from Indy's perspective, it could have been replaced. Indy didn't go into the Temple out of some need to find those stones. Substitute any one of a zillions artifacts that might have peeked his interest and he would have gone. There was no personal pull for those particular objects.
Compared to Raiders and Crusade where Indy expressed a clear personal investment in the object of pursuit in both. If it were anything else, Indy wouldn't have been as interested.
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