All true, but (if I have my stories straight) there is more to this story.
I seem to remember  (from my Colonial Williamsburg days) that it was Audrey
Noel Hume, Noel's wife,  who actually had been trained in archaeology.  The
accepted story was that Noel was a theatre major. -- which may explain his
charming ability to bring archaeology to the public.


Linda Derry, Director
Old Cahawba - AHC
719 Tremont St.
Selma, AL 36701 - 5446
ph. 334/875-2529 / email: [log in to unmask]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of paul
> courtney
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:43 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: good books
>
>
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Affleck" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 10:00 PM
> Subject: Re: good books
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> > R
> >
> >
> > Richard M. Affleck, RPA
> > Senior Archaeologist
> > URS Corporation
> > 561 Cedar Lane
> > Florence, NJ  08518-2511
> > 609-499-3447 (phone)
> > 609-499-3516 (fax)
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> >
> >
> >                       "Grover, Margan A POA02"
> >                       <[log in to unmask]         To:
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> >                       E.ARMY.MIL>                         cc:
> >                       Sent by: HISTORICAL                 Subject: Re:
> good books
> >                       ARCHAEOLOGY
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> >
> >                       10/21/02 04:29 PM
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> >                       HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Didn't Ivor Noel-Hume believe that women did not belong in the field
> > because they were the weaker sex?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ned Heite [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:42 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: good books
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 12:56 PM -0400 10/20/02, georgejmyersjr wrote:
> > >"Historical Archaeology" by Ivor Noel-Hume.Alfred E.Knopf 1968,
> > republished
> > >1974.
> > >
> > >George Myers
> >
> >
> > 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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