I guess that would explain why you're a historic archaeologist and not a historical archaeologist.
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From: Mark Branstner <[log in to unmask]> 

> 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 :-) 
> -- 
> 
> Mark C. Branstner 
> Historic Archaeologist 
> 
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