Lost Somewhere in the Middle-Range: Current Trends in North American Archaeology

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More than thirty years have passed since the ideas of New Archaeology swept through the discipline. Since then, archaeologists have made many advances in archaeological methods and theory. Reviewing the present literature, however, I question if the current trends in North American archaeology are still a part of the New Archaeology’s research program. In this paper I first review the developmental stages that New Archaeology has gone through, and then suggest where American archaeology stands within that historic framework:

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• Wyoming Archaeologist 1997

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