Actually, that age should be lowered to at least 60.  We have had a number of discussions where the ones of us alive in the late 1940s and 1950s (I am 67) contributed useful personal information on the use of specific bottles, broken glass as tools, and other very cool conversations.
 
Increasingly, the evaluators who visit our university call us dinosaurs -- and this one plans to go extinct in three years.  We just bought the motor home we will live in during our retirement!
 
Bill Lockhart

>>> "Robert L. Schuyler" <[log in to unmask]> 5/9/2012 9:27 AM >>>
GOOD. The only "historic" archaeologists are those over 70 years old.

RLS

At 10:16 AM 5/9/2012, you wrote:
>In deference to Dr. Schuyler, I have changed my e-mail signature from
>"Historic Archaeologist" to "Historical Archaeologist."  Now, if we just
>get those "Prehistorical Archaeologists" to recognize their mistake ...
>
>Respectfully, Mark
>___________________________________
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>Mark C. Branstner, RPA
>Historical Archaeologist
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>Illinois State Archaeological Survey
>Prairie Research Institute
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
>23 East Stadium Drive
>Champaign, IL 61820
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>Phone: 217.244.0892
>Fax: 217.244.7458
>Cell: 217.549.6990
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>"Memory vectors collective success for any people."
>--- Randall Robinson.
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>On 5/9/12 9:11 AM, "Robert L. Schuyler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >These introductions are really interesting, especially the various
> >interests and the global spread of our membership. So here goes:
> >
> >Robert L. Schuyler - historical archaeologist and anthropologist (BA
> >U of Arizona 1964, MA 1968 and PhD 1975 UC-Santa Barbara). I started
> >in Southwestern prehistory and Maya archaeology but in graduate
> >school shifted into historical archaeology after meeting James Deetz.
> >I joined the SHA, the SPMA, the SIA, and the Australian (now
> >Australasian) Society for Historical Archaeology when they were
> >founded and attended the second official SHA meeting (1969 in
> >Tucson). I am Past President of the SHA (1982) and past Executive
> >Officer of CNEHA and in 1999 received the J.C. Harrington Medal. I
> >have only missed four SHA meetings since 1968.
> >
> >I am interested in World historical archaeology (all periods) but
> >right now am working on the 19th-20th centuries in southern New
> >Jersey. I run a graduate program in our field at the University of
> >Pennsylvania, founded by John Cotter, which has produced about 40
> >PhDs in the field.
> >
> >I am a major advocate of historical archaeology as part of
> >anthropology [although recently I have observed that most of our
> >cultural anthropological colleagues are nuts] but also think we need
> >to be well grounded in other fields, especially History.
> >
> >Some pet peeves:
> >
> >(1) It is "Historical Archaeology" not "Historic" Archaeology,
> >
> >(2) Historical Archaeology is the archaeology of the Modern World
> >(ca. 1400 to the present C.E.). It is not the archaeology of all
> >history. Both in terms of culture history and cultural evolution this
> >last half millennium or 600 years is one of the most important stages
> >in human history.
> >
> >(3) To succeed Historical Archaeology must clearly and consistently
> >define itself. The field, however, faces two dangers. First, defining
> >itself out of existence by not being clear who we are, what we study,
> >and why our subject is important to general scholarship and to the
> >public. Second, it could also be badly damaged by internal
> >"balkinization", by trying to set off completely separate,
> >independent specializations inside the field. For example, there is
> >no "African American Archaeology", only "African American Historical
> >Archaeology."
> >
> >(4) Our field is the only specifically global archaeology and so we
> >must remain global in orientation and pay attention to our
> >international members but also equally support our student members
> >most of which are located here in North America.
> >
> >We have a great journal and newsletter and some of the best
> >conferences (just the right size) in general scholarship.
> >
> >that's enough.     Bob Schuyler