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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
There has been, of late, much ado in archaeological circles about amateur and professional relations. Actually, there is no new problem here; there has always been an area of strain as well as an area of amicable cooperation between these groups. The tension, it is true, grows more acute with the rapid decrease in number of good sites and is, therefore, simply another manifestation of the competitive friction associated with increasing population pressures on resources of all kinds. Moreover, the spread of amateur interest in archaeology has been tremendous, but the number of jobs for professional prehistorians remains, as always, small.
page 169 note * Editor's Note: One of the highlights of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society, held in Lincoln, Nebraska, May 3-5, was the Workshop on Local Archaeological Societies, arranged by William J. Mayer-Oakes. Numerous speakers, discussants, and informal participants presented a great assortment of ideas and suggestions, many of which will be the basis for further work by committees of the Society and by local groups. It is impossible to publish here all the constructive and stimulating remarks made at the workshop sessions, but the following 2 papers are published to represent the whole. They both present points of view that were repeatedly echoed during the sessions, and which deserve even wider consideration than they have previously had.
