good ><any>:[log in to unmask] >Skip Stewart-Abernathy writes that Karl Steinen and others suggest that >there is no difference between prehistoric and historic archaeology. >As, I guess, one of the others, I don't think this is quite correct. >What I (and I think some of the others) are saying is that, although >there are differences, we remain, at the basic level, archaeologists. >Yes, there are differences in the way sites are excavated and in the >theoretical perspective we use to interpret the material AND >documentary record. But that is true even among "prehistorians" >and "historians". If I were a betting man (but I'm neither), I >would wager that you might find as many differences within each >group than between it. Anyway, I appreciate all of the responses >that came both directly to me and to the list; they have made >me think about such topics in a new way. > >Dorothy Humpf >Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission > Chester P. Bateman Email: [log in to unmask] PO BOX 1558 Fax: (503) 752-4024 Corvallis, Oregon 97339 USA CompuServe: 75271,552