I will second this statement and also, unfortunately, Keith DeVries just 
passed away.


At 01:53 PM 9/28/2006, you wrote:
>I'm curious with whom you studied at Penn.  Neither Rodney Young nor Keith
>DeVries nor Donald White, all active then at Penn, would fall under the
>rubric of Art History.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Meli
>Diamanti
>Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:21 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Introductions
>
>Please accept my apologies.  I did not mean to diss any of the work
>being done "across the pond."  Yes, I meant classical archaeology, not
>all of Old World archaeology.  But I was also speaking of what was being
>taught at the University of Pennsyvlania in the early 1970's - which was
>not even current with developments in the field AT THAT TIME, let alone
>now.  I managed to stick with archaeology despite my frustrations with
>the program at Penn, and went on to a much better and broader and more
>up-to-date education at the Pennsylvania State University (NOT the same
>thing as Univ. of Pennsylvania) in the later 1970s and 1980s.
>Meli Diamanti
>
>
>Paul Scotton wrote:
>
> >Apologies are not necessary but thanks.  As for "recent years", the efforts
> >in Greece by both the Greeks themselves and the foreign archaeological
> >schools had moved far beyond the Art History notion by at least as early as
> >the second decade of the 20th century.  My own efforts have been fueled by
> >the copious strategraphic records kept in field notebooks from 1914 and
> >1915.  I suspect neither of us would consider that recent.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark
> >Branstner
> >Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:58 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Introductions
> >
> >
> >
> >>>Classical archaeology is more the ART HISTORY-based work of
> >>>Greek/Roman/Egyptian/etc. archaeology of the past (and perhaps the
> >>>present), that has only in recent years begun to catch up with REAL
> >>>archaeology :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>This notion of Classical Archaeology is certainly dated and has been
> >>for quite sometime.
> >>
> >>Paul D. Scotton
> >>Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology
> >>Classics
> >>California State University
> >>1250 N. Bellflower Blvd.
> >>Long Beach, CA 90840-2404
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Sorry Paul ...  My response was meant to be very general and only in
> >response to Meli's post ..  Also, my concept of "recent years" may be
> >significantly different than yours ... I sometimes forget how how
> >long I have been doing this.
> >
> >

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