Ahhhhhh.. Santa Fe. I dearly love that area! 
Chaco, Chamyo(sp), Taos, Tre Ritas, Mora, Las 
Vegas, Sipapo, Penasco Man that's living!!! 
Directed a Boy Scout camp at 8000ft and darn near 
froze to death but had an old logging mill that 
kept me occupied. Tried to get my child bride of 
54 years to move to Espanola but it was too cold 
for her. Thanks for your input.
DTP

At 12:15 PM 7/18/2007, you wrote:
>Fortunately for you, David, you're still willing 
>to admit your confusion. Hold onto that grad 
>school naiveté as long as possible -- the real 
>world will beat it out of you soon enough and 
>you, too, will find yourself making 
>pronouncements about how to define your field of 
>study. Historical archaeology is like kivas in 
>Southwestern Pueblo sites -- nobody knows how to 
>define it but we're all pretty sure we know it when we see it.
>Susan Walters' (admirably) short-and-sweet 
>definition brings to my mind a situation on a 
>project I'm working on now. We have sites that 
>are Hispanic ranchos -- so, clearly historic in 
>time (i.e., after the introduction of Europeans 
>and written records), sites that are prehistoric 
>Puebloan, and sites with components that are 
>prehistoric Puebloan, historic Euroamerican, and 
>historic Puebloan. How, oh, how to classify?
>Although my co-directors and I euphemistically 
>refer amongst ourselves to the resulting 
>reports-in-progress as the historic and 
>prehistoric volumes, we are actually calling the 
>volume that will deal with the Hispanic 
>components the"Euroamerican volume," while the 
>volumes that will deal with the Puebloan (and 
>Archaic) components will be the "Native 
>volumes." That, of course, will offend some 
>folks who will contend that, by the late 18th 
>century (our oldest Hispanic component), 
>Hispanics were natives of the area. The issue is 
>not resolved by referring to Indians as Native 
>Americans, since that term, too, could apply to 
>the local Hispanics. In fact, my family has 
>lived in northern New Mexico for about 150 
>years, so I (sometimes hautily) consider myself 
>a native. But, we had to make a call, and we 
>decided to group the components of Euroamerican 
>origin(s), even though many of the artifacts 
>were made by Indians, and to group the 
>components of Indian origin(s), even though at 
>least one will be "historic" in age.
>Nothing, of course, prevents us from comparing 
>assemblages across presumed ethnic and temporal boundaries.
>We have stopped referring to "historic" 
>artifacts and "historic artifact analysis" and 
>gone to "Euroamerican artifacts" and 
>"Euroamerican artifact analysis," admitting up 
>front that items like Chinese porcelain and 
>Haitian Phoenix buttons are not technically Euroamerican artifacts.
>That's our happy little story, and we're sticking with it.
>Has your confusion now given you a headache? If 
>not, then I haven't done my job.
>Jeff
>
>Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
>Project Director
>Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
>mail: P.O. Box 2087, Santa Fe, New Mexico  87504
>physical: 407 Galisteo Street, Suite B-100, Santa Fe, New Mexico  87501
>tel: 505.827.6387          fax: 505.827.3904
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>"It might look a bit messy now, but just you 
>come back in 500 years time."  --Terry Pratchett
>
>
>________________________________
>
>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY on behalf of David Parkhill
>Sent: Wed 7/18/2007 9:22 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Hysterical Archaeology
>
>
>
>I am trying my best to understand all of the evaluations concerning the
>terms "Historical Archaeology", "History"and "Archaeology". The more I
>read, (it is all very good!) the more confused I become.
>
>It seems to me some folks are trying to defend their "Sacred Positions",
>which I find is usual among intellectuals, while others are trying to just
>confuse the issue. Being a neophyte in this area of study I keep asking,
>Huh? So if I may be so bold as to admit, "I don't know!" Then "What the
>heck is Historical Archaeology ?"
>
>With all due respect, I am really impressed with the quality and knowledge
>of all of you and your willingness to share and support each other.
>
>Best regards
>
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