Hi Carol --

No.

What irks me is when archaeologists who have never had any training in
History claim that they are "historical" archaeologists. And it gets even
worse when they claim that they ARE historians!

I look forward to seeing the responses to your posted question.

Cheers!

Carl Barna
Regional Historian
BLM Colorado State Office





Ca

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At 04:36 PM 9/8/2004 -0500, V Noble wrote:

>I'm sure that many trained historians get irked whenever some smalltown
>librarian is called a "local historian" in the Gazette, and I'm enough of
>an elitist that I get a twinge in my gut even when someone with a B.A.
>calls himself an archaeologist, though he may do it every day for a
>living--