Amen, Mary Ellin.
 
Dan M.
 
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> 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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