Sarah:
What kinds of Historical Archaeology projects are being done at U of A and
are any of you presenting at SHA? Any from sites in Arizona? We have been
talking with Dave Kilick about some students doing CSF field
archaeogeophysical and archaeochemical work on our Babocomari Ranch Project
and similar work on the awesome Terrenate Presidio site. I am interested
because I am gathering up studies of this type for my dissertation in the UK
on new technical advances that can be applied to archaeology.
I understood from Dr. Hoffman of NAU that when Dr. Fontana retired the
formal program at ASU retired too.
Rich Lundin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Cowie" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: An academic-type question
> Rich and Histarchers,
>
> Yes, Dave Killick mentors a number of historical
> archaeologists here at UA, as do Terry Majewski, Jim
> Ayers, Jeff Reid, and Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman (and
> maybe others?). We have no formal Historical
> Archaeology program, concentration or major, but there
> are a number of us graduate students who refer to
> ourselves as historical archaeologists, nonetheless.
>
> I suspect there are a lot of departments out there
> that, like UA, do not have formal HA programs, but
> have a number of qualified and interested faculty to
> teach HA and mentor. However, it would be good to see
> more cohesive HA programs and full-time HA faculty
> positions in the future.
>
> Sarah Cowie
> PhD candidate
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Arizona
>
> --- Rich Lundin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Ron:
>>
>> When I did my survey of Historical Archaeology
>> programs for my MA in 1997 at
>> NAU, there were several Historical Archaeology
>> programs listed in
>> California. Sadly, I believe the only active
>> programs now are at UCB and
>> CSU-Humboldt. It appears, that like Arizona,
>> California anthropology
>> departments got rid of the Historical Archaeology
>> programs when the funds
>> got short and the administrators and prehistoric
>> archaeologists believed
>> that their projects would be threatened and "Who
>> needs to look at this
>> recent junk anyway?" That approach turns out to be
>> so short-sited (pun
>> intended) with our governmental mandate of looking
>> at the data from a
>> moving window of 50 years from the present-you have
>> to deal with this "junk"
>> anyway. The success and growth of SHA proves this
>> out. In Arizona, I
>> believe I was the last Historical Archaeology MA.
>> There may be some work
>> being done on historical sites out of University of
>> Arizona's Archaeological
>> Science Program under Dave Killick, an ex-pat from
>> the UK like Noel Hume.
>>
>> Rich Lundin, BA, MA, RPA, ISAP
>> Consulting Historical Archaeologist and Remote
>> Sensing Specialist
>> Director, Wondjina Research Institute
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ron May" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:28 AM
>> Subject: Re: An academic-type question
>>
>>
>> >
>> > In a message dated 7/18/2007 6:32:31 P.M. Pacific
>> Daylight Time,
>> > [log in to unmask] writes:
>> >
>> > archaeology depts
>> >
>> >
>> > I believe the University of California, Los
>> Angeles has an archaeology
>> > department. However, I would be surprised if they
>> had an historical
>> > archaeologist
>> > on staff.
>> >
>> > Ron May
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