Having entered old fartism into this conversation, I was intrigued to hear Thomas Langhorne's experience, which is much like my own. I can remember being the grad school whiz kid with the table digitizers, SYMAP, Tektronix scopes and reams of Fortran code to bolster my understanding of the world of the past. I advocated stcking every known site on SPSS or SAS. Over time, and lots of experience, I came to feel that there certainly is a place for technbology in archaeology--lots of places really--but too many people continue to use it for its own sake. Perhaps that's how we learn what works and what doesn't, but for me, I consider all the thousands of wasted hours and dollars that went into programming and analyzing which might have more productively gone to reading, reflecting, fondling artifacts, or digging another few squares. Dan Mouer [log in to unmask]