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Thanks to Bob for making good sense out of this sequence, addressing both chronology AND context.
Roberta Greenwood
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From: Schuyler, Robert L <[log in to unmask]>
To: HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thu, Mar 22, 2018 12:46 pm
Subject: Re: Protohistory on the Utah site form
Steen makes a good point but it should not mislead us into thinking that culture history or especially cultural evolution have no impact. The division between prehistory and full history in North America is radical. Jared Diamond is probably generally correct that natives peoples of the Americas are off the center of the stage of world history forever after European invasion. However, this is relative and not true for a few regions in NA (e.g. the 4-corners region in the Southwest) and he is probably not correct when he makes the same observation for Sub-saharan Africa.
If you are talking about how to classify archaeological sites and situations then Fontana's 1965 terminology is of interest:
PROTOHISORIC - native sites with European items but before Europeans [or other nonaboriginal peoples] arrive in the area,
CONTACT - native sites actually visited by Europeans [or other nonaboriginal peoples] but the sites already existed before the visits,
POSTCONTACT - sites visited by Europeans [or other nonaboriginal peoples] that did not exist in the protohistoric or contact periods,
FRONTIER - specialized European [or other nonaboriginal] sites that existed because of native peoples (e.g. forts, missions, fur trading posts),
NONABORIGINAL - sites that involve native peoples only in a minor way or not at all (e.g. Gila Stage Station; Johnny Ward's Ranch).
Bob Schuyler
P.S. I am not sure how we would classify the home site of a certain current senator from Massachusetts under this system.
Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
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