At 2:05 PM -0500 1/9/04, geoff carver wrote:
>before i get deluged, the general concensus seems to be "refitting" - thanx!

That was refreshing. There's a lot of terminology in the field that
could use consensus.

One of my first memories of an archaeological conference was a
Southeastern session back in the sixties on the terminology for
temper in pottery. At the Middle Atlantic this year, one speaker is
going to struggle with the terminology of ironmaking site reportage.
The Delaware Department of Transportation requests glossaries in
public-consumption reports, and they sometimes have really wide
variations.

Does somebody have a peculiarly obsessive-compulsive graduate student
who would like to become the Noah Webster of American archaeology?
Really, it would be a great thesis.

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