It is indeed a very interesting debate that (fortunately) has gone far 
beyond the original, somewhat self-serving questions that I posed.  But 
the problem with putting someone in an archaeology department is that in 
the U.S. one has to find, or create, such a department first--since 
archaeology departments here are very, very few.  Generally the most 
that one can do, in my own experience at Montclair, is to try to create 
a working group or interdepartmental faculty committee that brings 
archaeologists together for a number of purposes and helps to mitigate 
the box-like qualities of traditional academic departments. 


Iain Stuart wrote:
> This is an interesting debate. I can really only comment on the broader
> areas but it is of interest that nobody suggested putting the historical
> archaeologist in an archaeology department. It seems a logical place and
> often this is what is done in Australia. I suppose it is unbelievably naive
> of me to suggest this.
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