Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States. by Stephen Dyson, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1998.

One of the aspects of 20th century archaeology in America thatwould undoubtedly perplex our 19th century predecessors is the extreme intellectualdistance between Americanist, anthropological archaeologists and our counterparts whowork in the classical world. We belong to different professional societies, publish indifferent journals. occupy different academic departments, and draw our inspiration fromdifferent intellectual sources. Crossovers exist, but are comparatively rare, and areviewed with suspicion by all. One of my professors once announced to a seminar that ifclassical archaeologists didn't start doing something interesting, we would "have totake over.