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Date: | Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:59:18 -0400 |
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Speaking as someone who worked in federal, state and local government most
of my career and is now back in private industry, I really do not believe
academic history departments provide adequate training for the conduct of
historical archaeology. In my line of work, a poorly conceived survey, test, or even
a bias can result in the destruction of resources that I value too highly to
let this issue pass silently. My own Life experience involved a graduate
program in anthropology, another in public history, and then work in a
geologist's office, and finally working with an interdisciplinary organization for
twenty-six years. The sum total of academic and practical experience enabled me
to evolve with the profession. However, I never felt the history department
in which I trained had a clue how to conduct historical archaeology.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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