Well, in historical/classical or philological archaeology, maybe, but the
Brits tend to think of "prehistoric" archaeology as being the model
everything else is but a pale imitation of...
All that stuff about how uniformitarianism, the 3-age system & evolution
being the foundations upon which the discipline was built...?
Ring a bell?
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Meli
Diamanti
Sent: September 27, 2006 21:49
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Subject: Re: Introductions
Then I
realized the Old World archaeology was unsatisfactory because it was
only seen as the handmaiden of history.