EMBATTLED COLLEAGUES:
 
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>My good friend, Marley Brown, has insisted that I leave the solitude of my
>verandah couch and the beckoning green sea and pink beaches to have a look
>at the heated discussion ON STRATIGRAPHY on HISTARCH.
>
Family runour that I am descended from the Boone Family and possess all
their American/Jefferson papers (which I may send up to Sothebys for some
spending money) via Kentucky and London, as one of you intimated. These
papers certainly have been a boon, without which there would be no Harris
Matrix, one is sure.
>
>Anyway, as soon as Academic Press goes under, we can republish "the little
>thin book" with a red cover and then maybe even Marxist archaeologists
>might take note that they are living the prehistoric, rather than
>revolutionary, life.
>
>As far as a Dan Mouer saying that I am "flat-out wrong", one can only
>suggest that he is not in full possession, of the facts.  Too many
>archaeological conferences have turned the flat into a distintive, perhaps
>distinguished, buldge. And of course, I am never wrong, nor out.
>
>But let's not get personal, but stick to the issues.
>
>The fact of the matter is that archaeological data is being destroyed
>across the board by well-meaning excavators in all areas of the world. It
>is being destroyed by using the wrong excavation techiques and outdated
>recording methods.
>
>The fact that my suggestions to Linda Derry's group received a negative
>reaction underlines the rot in the system.
>
>All of you have been talking about digging: I will be waiting and reading
>to see if one of the Harris Matrix advocates can come up with the real
>issue in the discussion, for it is that issue against which there no
>winning argument from the opponents of the Harris Matrix and its
>associated methods.
>
>Meanwhile, back to the verandah and the cold Amstel (Light of course).
>
>Harris, of the Matrix
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Dr. Edward Harris
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