archaeology and heritage

My old "A Dictionary of Archaeology" c) 1970 edited by Dr. Warwick Bray, a Lecturer then in American Archaeology at London University and David Trump then Staff Tutor in Archaeology at the Cambridge University Board of Extra-mural Studies, (with drawings by Judith Newcomer which became "The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology" published in 1972. By the way there is/was a public "Penguin" statue in Baltimore's "Inner Harbor" from the book publishers) states: industry An ASSEMBLAGE of artifacts including the same types so consistently as to suggest that it is the product of a single society. If more than one class of objects (eg flint tools or bronze weapons) is found, we can talk of a CULTURE." (p. 114 between Indus and ingot) In Irving Rouse's "Introduction to prehistory: A systematic approach" which I once studied, (also author of "The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus" Yale University Press and other Caribbean archaeology) he used a similar typology to describe archaeology. Unfortunately I see "American Heritage" dismissed when used about archaeology, for example the marker of the "Last Village of the Wesqueqeck" in Westchester County, their subsequent history, which historians attribute to a lured into massacre in New Jersey and the perhaps first "reservation" drawn up in treaty by the Dutch and English on the Nissequogue River for the survivors in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY, left out of a report on the "prehistory" of a report I worked on, with 12 radiocarbon dates, though their descendants may still survive. A similar "hypothesis" might involve the wintering of the Russian Fleet in the ports of San Francisco and New York City during the American Civil War and a possible contribution to our industrial heritage from it in exchange in the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY I once heard posited, the foundry proper currently the subject of industrial archaeology for a number of years by Michigan Technological University. The smuggled industrial "workers" from Great Britain also involved in the historic Foundry might be considered part of British "industrial heritage". So it seems, there is some questions of industrial archaeology that show that "industrial heritage" as the concepts that travel with language and "culture" are transferred, perhaps "unbeknown" to an archaeologist despite the known occurrence of "simultaneous invention". George Myers (not necessarily the opinion of anyone connected with the archaeology and heritage cited)