I was pondering a recent article about the archaeology of a mission station in South Africa, and I got to thinking about the archaeology of conversion to Christianity. Have there been any other examples of mission stations excavated in the USA or abroad? And there is the wider question of what effects would we expect to be caused by conversions; as well as the obvious acceptqance of overtly Christian material culture, is is possible to make more general cross-cultural comparisons about the process of religion? What is the relationship between Conversion and Globalism? Some ideas for a hot summers day! dave galletti ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com