So what is ethnicity? Blood? Nurture? Maternity? Paternity? Mentoring? Ethnicity just is. And it might float. We currently are analysing material from a site that was part of a community including acculturated Native Americans, whites, and mixed-bloods. The house site was occupied during the late eighteenth century by people who probably were not Methodists. We know that because there is a Methodist church within a mile of the site, and they aren't on the roll. Beyond an absence of Methodism, we know that these people made extensive use of flaked bottle glass tools. So we should assume that the flaking was directly derived from some site occupant's Native American ancestors? No? As a matter of fact, it appears that the flaked glass tools were used as much by the site's white occupants as by the Native Americans. In fact, the Native American site occupants may not have been the makers of the flaked glass. The Native occupants belonged to a more sophisticated social level than the white occupants, and appear to have been more integrated into the surrounding market-centered society. So the whites were more native than the natives. Or something like that. So much for ethnic markers. Now, what was someone saying about sifters? |--------------------------------------------------------| | 69 Land Rover Ned Heite | | Camden, Delaware 19934 | | 0 to 60 http://www.dmv.com/~iceland | | eventually http://home.dmv.com/~eheite/index.html| |--------------------------------------------------------|