Thank you, Adrian - I was just thinking the other day how quiet the
listserve has been :)

This is really my pet peeve. It is the human past we study, whether we be
historians, architectural historians, archaeologists, or the newest
professional title - landscape historian. We're going to confine ourselves
right out of jobs and more importantly, out of the ability to get at the
meat of why what we do is important (of course that's a matter of opinion).

To respond to Carl's comment:  While the archaeology departments may not
list history classes in their catalogs, it's my experience from talking to
the new generation of historical archaeologists that most of us who have
chosen to get our degree in an archaeology department that do not specialize
in historical archaeology have taken all of their electives and additional
classes in history. I don't think the problem is the education that the
students are getting.  I think it's academia.  I know many historians who
have to battle their professors to take archaeology classes and although, as
I said above, many of us historical archaeologists have a lot of training in
history, it is by our own initiative and sometimes tenacity that this is so.


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Adrain --

A perfect example of why students in Historical Archaeology need to be also
trained in History, not currently the situation in US anthro-oriented grad
school HA programs.

Carl Barna
Regional Historian
BLM Colorado State Office




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"If you provide a research design that. explains why archaeological data
are better than archival or historic sources for studying these questions,
the THC will support it."

Barile continues.

".this statement re-emphasized the tendency to separate archaeology from
the cohesive study of all historic cultural resources, including
architecture, archival research, and oral history."


Adrian Praetzellis
Sonoma State University