We had a good one in the university of frankfurt/oder - mix of
art/architectural history, restoration, legislation, maintaining archives
(what do you do with all the old east german secret police records? How do
you move all the nazi/soviet archives out of a world heritage site [a palace
in potsdam] when the state is woefully underfunded? Etc.), project
management, etc. - deliberately multidisciplinary, and I really learned a
lot about what art/architectural historians could tell me about the economix
of building cathedrals, for example; how stone masons were
trained/apprenticed & moved around from job to job in medieval europe, and
might maybe work themselves up to actually designing back in the days before
there were professional architects -
Just because they're not archaeologists, doesn't mean they're dummies -
think of the similar disconnect between archaeologists and
geoarchaeologists/pedologists; how difficult it is talking to one another
sometimes about soil types or whatever...
Then again, my wife started studying medieval history & then switched over
to doing archaeology for her MA (in medieval history, U Barcelona)


geoff carver - SUNY buffalo
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-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jennifer
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Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 06:25
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Subject: Re: archaeologists and history

>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.

In an effort to broaden my horizons and to be a better historic
archaeologist, about a year ago I went back to school for a program in
historic preservation and architectural history.  It has shown me how much I
really **don't** know... quite an eye opener!