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I think Meli may have substituted OLD WORLD archaeology for what she
probably meant ... CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY. Personally, I would not
consider them interchangeable terms. Rather, Old World archaeology
is, at least for me, everything that gjcarver referred to, i.e.,
"scientific" geologically/geographically/culturally based archaeology
that leads to processual archaeology and beyond. Classical
archaeology is more the ART HISTORY-based work of
Greek/Roman/Egyptian/etc. archaeology of the past (and perhaps the
present), that has only in recent years begun to catch up with REAL
archaeology :-)
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Mark C. Branstner
Historic Archaeologist
Illinois Transportation
Archaeological Research Program
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Champaign, IL 61820
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