At 06:13 AM 3/17/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Perhaps the only solution is to marry the fields into an entirely new
>discipline where not only do students learn about archaeology and
>anthropology, but
>also history, architectural history and historic preservation.  Applied
>culture
>studies is a broader category that could encompass all these under one
>umbrella.  Maybe it is time for the academic fields to change in the face of
>practical research instead of history and research for posterity and
>intellectual
>exercise.

We can call it Cultural Resources Management.  Seriously, though, we are
supposed to be able to do all of that to get the job done.

I have always said that it is often far more important to know what NOT to
do than to know what to do - you have to be aware of your limitations (i.e.
skills).  By "your" I mean the firm's, your personal, the budget's, the
record's, the site's, ...

         Dan W.