Here's my favorite quote that shows that things don't change all that much;
this is Margaret Murray, who was a student of Flinders Petrie and
celebrating her 100th birthday in 1961 when she wrote this:

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but
archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the
human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen
in all stages of social and religious development. Archaeology is the study
of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in
mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a  welter of
flint chips.

      Margaret Murray. First steps in archaeology, Antiquity 35:13. 1961
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Kris Hirst
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The University of Iowa
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