At 10:13 AM 8/14/99 -0700, Michael Scholl wrote:

>In "Archaeology as Anthropology" (American Antiquity
>28 :217-225) Binford (1962) took the quote from Willey
>and Phillips (1958 :2) "Methods and Theory in American
>Archaeology."

>To dig further, Wiley and Phillips paraphrased
>"Maitland's famous dictum:" which they rendered
>"American archaeology is anthropology or it is
>nothing."  Who is Maitland?  Willey and Phillips
>didn't offer a citation and a shuffle through the
>bibs. in the home library didn't turn up anything.

Maitland is undoubtedly Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906),
a prominent English legal historian.

See:
Frederic William Maitland, Historian; Selections from his Writings,
ed. Robert Livingston Schuyler, Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1960.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate Maitland's famous dictum
online and the University library is closed this afternoon.  If anyone does
find it, please post it here.

Mike
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