Gee, I dunno, Mark. I do not recall signing a paper narrowly defining  
historical archaeology to any "prevailing definition." And I was present with a  
group of people talking to Anita when the idea came up to create the list. And  
what is this nonsense about "capitalist hegemeny"? I think that when someone  
brings up a topic about an historical figure that might have left a trail of  
broken artifacts at placed identified in the written record, that we ought to 
be  able to discuss it without a lot of squawking.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
 
 
In a message dated 3/30/2009 12:22:19 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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C'mon  Ron,

Using that rationale, we can start asking questions based on  Julius 
Caesar and the Gauls, or Ibn Fadlan and the Russian Vikings  ...

Neither topic is consistent with the prevailing definition of  
Historical Archaeology, which I would paraphrase as the study of  
Western expansionist interaction with rest of the world in the Age of  
Discovery and beyond.  OK, Marco Polo may presage that, but not in  
the sense of the capitalist hegemony that marks the modern  period.

Mark
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Illinois Transportation
Archaeological Research  Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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