Figure 5 pulled a lot of things together for me as a reader in understanding this special place on Blood Run Creek. And I see how these two different approaches to learning what the creek has to tell us are complementary and not in competition.
Unfortunately, there is a competitive aspect in some archaeologists' minds. But, that's probably an improvement over the "dumb, savage Indians" attitudes from back in the day.
Figure 5 pulled a lot of things together for me as a reader in understanding this special place on Blood Run Creek. And I see how these two different approaches to learning what the creek has to tell us are complementary and not in competition.
Unfortunately, there is a competitive aspect in some archaeologists' minds. But, that's probably an improvement over the "dumb, savage Indians" attitudes from back in the day.
The competition seems to be for authority and legitimacy. That is nothing new.
Right! We can't escape our settler history. We're still "fighting the Indian Wars".