ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION In 1931 D.Jenness, the noted Canadian anthropologist, wrote that Canadian archaeology is ‘a child of recent years that has not yet reached full stature’ (Jenness, in Noble 1973:49). Some years later Noble, recipient of one of the first Canadian doctorates in archaeology, added ‘it is now fair to say that archaeology in Canada has attained a young adult stature in most of the Dominion’s ten provinces’ (Noble 1973:49). The chief of the Archaeological Survey of Canada subsequently turned the thought in an unexpected direction:
In my opinion the analogy is not completely inappropriate, because the growth in question has been anything but normal. Indeed, to stay with the analogy would be to observe a child who exhibits little or no growth over many years and then suddenly explodes into a hulk possessing both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde characteristics.
