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This template must be substituted. Replace {{Requested move ...}} with {{subst:Requested move ...}}. This page has problems. When I got here, this was a series of barely related opinions on the Peopling of the New World, alongside Willey and Phillip's chronology and some slightly unclear statements about the NAGPRA legislation. I've removed many items that should really go in more specific articles, and tried to leave in wiki-links to the pages where such topics are covered. Nevertheless, this is still not a very good page. I gave the page a stub status to indicate the lack of present coverage of the topic. For a good article on this topic, I think the history of archaeology aspect should be covered first, with a focus on the contributions made in the Americas. This would certainly allow for Willey's chronology to be covered, as well as various other important advancements (Midwestern Taxonomic Method, maybe). The actual complexities of performing archaeology in a given part of the Americas- like the NAGPRA section- might fit nicely at the end. The peopling of the Americas should probably NOT be covered in depth, since there are separate articles to deal with that.

For the record, the opinions of the Andamanese Society are probably not sufficient as professional references for American archaeology. I have removed those links as well. They would be more useful/interesting/relevant as part of the Models of migration to the New World page, but I would encourage future editors to use that source of information cautiously. TriNotch 09:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Great work. American archaeology is quite patchily covered in the wiki at present so I hope you will be able to offer further guidance. adamsan 13:45, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Archaeology vs Archeology

I want to thank Bob A, but I had to revert that edit due to some curious confusion about the word- See the usage section of main archaeology article for a discussion of why "archaeology" is preferable to "archeology" in the Americas. TriNotch 23:15, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

i converted the spelling primarily because the title of the article itself is spelled that way. way is that? Bob A 01:31, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

Archeology of the Americas → Archaeology of the Americas – {The "ae" spelling is more prevalent in WP, and used for the main archaeology article itself. Straightfoward move cannot be effected since the one with "ae" spelling (currently a redirect) has some edit history of its own beyond the redirect creation}.

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• Support. as per the nomination.--cjllw | TALK 01:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose, for the reason that a google search for "archeology of the americas" and "archeology americas" both give more results than their respective ae equivalents. Bob A 03:19, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

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