At 01:30 PM 3/20/97 -0500, you wrote:
>... However, the point of the posting was that
>we cannot use a positivist epistemology because we do not practice an
>objective science.
 
Kevin,
I can't agree on that one. Practicing a 'hard' or 'objective' science is not
the necessary to use a positivist epistemology, though perhaps I am unclear
on what you mean by 'positivist epistemology' (this philosophical stuff
always brings out my insecurities).  Anyway, I think a good place to look at
some of these points of view is in the Cambridge volume by Valerie Pinsky
and Alison Wylie on "Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays
in the Philosphy, History and Socio-politics of Archaeology."  It has been
reprinted in paperback by Univ. of New Mexico press.
Mary Ellin D'Agostino
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