How about Protohistoric if you are looking for nice, neat classificatory
terms to place all phenomena in so that we can feel safe about controlling
knowledge. Continued obsession with "reductionism" of world phenomena
disguised as proper classification is a sure sign that the Dean of American
Anthropology (Alfred Kroeber) lives on in anthropologists who are unsure of
how to classify themselves?  Am I a anthropologist? An archaeologist? An
ethnologist? Historic Archaeologist? Or Prehistoric archaeologist.  What
difference does it make?  In the days of Kroeber, White, Lowie, Sapir, tec.,
these people did all fields and simply called themselves anthropologists.
 The concern was for universal laws and truths about human behavior and
culture, not a specific turf or territory.
 
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