ABSTRACT
Historical archaeology can be said to have become a bona fide sub-discipline in anthropology with the establishment of the Society for Historical Archaeology in 1967. The contributions of an historic sites archaeology to the larger disciplines of archaeology, anthropology and history are still debated in both the academic literature (see for example the Annales approach – Bintliff 1991) and the popular literature (for example Chippindale 2000; Lowenthal 2000; Wiseman 2000). Most of us, however, accepted the CRM-derived cut-off date for a historic site at fifty years before present, and have devoted both our research programmes and our methodological refinements to sites dating before this time.
