>Charging racism. More like the gringos know better how to do it. We call it American exceptionalism now. Same result

How very parochial. It would surprise my German, French, Sudanese, Egyptian, British, Norwegian, Polish and Russian colleagues, not to mention the Americans and my fellow Canadians.

>I rather suspect I have been on more working sites and worked the sites myself, including the use of high technology than you.

I rather suspect not, having spent a fair amount of my working life in the field. But that's irrelevant; what's relevant is your skewed, jaundiced view of a lively academic discipline, bursting with innovation and debate. You apparently know nothing about what actually happens to form the current archaeological consensus.