Oh come now Jeff, I don't think Dan was being entirely serious.  Whatever
happened to irony?  :-)
 
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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Jeff Morris wrote:
 
> Excuse me Dan,
>
> But don't forget that some of us so called 'insufferable Brits', are also
> members of this list, although we more often refer to the subject as
> Post-Medieval rather than Historical Archaeology.
>
> I am sure many of the British team found the methods employed by the
> Americans to be just as infuriating as you found their machines, but
> remember a significant number of us Brits are taught to think that the
> post-Medieval and later periods are not of such importance as prehistory,
> the Romans, The Saxons or even the Medieval period.  Anything later than
> this is still largely considered to be the realm of historians.
>
> Best wishes,
>
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