Yes it is very funny but to be fair to Ivor one should remember that he
comes from a generation who took such views for granted; but the reverse was
if you were on the sinking Titanic you really did let the women and children
go first and showed good grace about it as well. The degree of social change
from the early 1960s  to the 1980s was probably about as much as in the
previous couple of centuries.

paul courtney
(Another dammed limey)
Leicester


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> The original edition had a wonderfully misogynist couple of paragraphs
> about women doing fieldwork, and how men would be constantly jumping up to
> help them with their wheelbarrows, and how men couldn't be men 'cause they
> might hurt themselves and feel the need to swear, but couldn't because the
> words might fall upon a woman's delicate ear...etc, etc. Women volunteers
> come in for particularly rough treatment...something about high heels and
> low decolletage.
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> Didn't Ivor Noel-Hume believe that women did not belong in the field
> because they were the weaker sex?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ned Heite [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:42 AM
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> At 12:56 PM -0400 10/20/02, georgejmyersjr wrote:
> >"Historical Archaeology" by Ivor Noel-Hume.Alfred E.Knopf 1968,
> republished
> >1974.
> >
> >George Myers
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> Oxbow had it on sale in paperback recently.  I gave copies to the
> staff, made me look generous til they figured out how cheap the books
> were.
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