<shabon> ... this gets kind of technical ...

[David Robertson]

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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, David Lewis wrote:

> to European-style cultural settlements as the only true permanent
> settlements needs to be challenged. It might even be called an ethnocentric
> theory out of the past. This is a serious fallacy in anthropological theory
> which I will challenge whenever it appears. I think the indigenous
> perspective needs to be recognized here as manytimes even the colonial
> trading centers were placed near or on top of an already well established
> pre-historic cultural site.
>

Yes, and thus I fine-tuned what I was saying as I said it:  Not just
'permanent settlements' (of any cultural group, as noted), but 'frequent,
and perduring, contacts' occurring there.  It would seem we're in
agreement, wigna?

NB.  I think it would be difficult for colonialists to manage not placing
their establishments on any of the numberless prehistoric cultural sites
in North America.

Dave R.