The ol' science vs. humanism thing....  Many of us (both prehistorians and
historians) have come to the unsurprising conclusion that there is room for
both approaches and many of us like to combine the two!  By this, I mean
rigorous data collection and analysis combined with self-reflective,
post-modernist, humanistic, historical, (fill in other adjectives here)
approaches.  I for one am tired of the whole science vs humanities debate
and wish we would recognize that archaeology, anthropology, and historical
archaeology are social sciences and have room for a diversity of approaches
and (I hope) dialog between them.
 
Mary Ellin D'Agostino
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