From: Bob Trubshaw <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: The End of Archaeology???
>At 15:58 28/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>You are now asking questions that are difficult to answer. Off hand, it
seems
>>to me that "history" is composed of someone else's lies, while in
archaeololgy,
>>at least us scientific types, get to make up our own.
>
>>Post-processualists probably find it relatively difficult to distinguish.
>
>Thankfully, I think PPists have shown that we need to be very careful to
>distinguish when 'scientific types' are 'making up their own' archaeology.
>
>Bob
>
>
This may be just a little naive, but what did you mean by your statement?
Do you mean to imply that certain methodologies are questionable in relation
to the questions being addressed?
Wade Workman
Graduate Student in Micronesian Studies
University of Guam
472 Route 8, Suite 1B-271
Mongmong, Guam 96927-2010
Ph/FAX 671-646-6309
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
--L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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