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On the Meaning of Historic Sites Archaeology*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bernard L. Fontana
Bernard L. Fontana*
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, Tucson, Arizona
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Abstract

A definition of historic sites archaeology as it applies in the New World is offered, and a five-fold classification of historic sites is proposed (protohistoric, contact, postcontact, frontier, and nonaboriginal). The usefulness of the concept of historic sites archaeology is discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , July 1965 , pp. 61 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965

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Footnotes

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This paper was inspired largely by discussions held among participants in the symposium on “The Meaning of Historic Sites Archaeology” at the 1963 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Boulder, Colorado. The panelists were Bernard L. Fontana (chairman), Lewis R. Binford, Louis R. Caywood, John L. Cotter, Stephen L. Glass, Henry Hornblower II, Kenneth E. Kidd, Edward Larrabee, Carlyle Smith, and Arthur Woodward.

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