a. The "New Archaeology" of the 1960s has for the most part been uncritically accepted by nearly all Americanist archaeologists, and currently dominates archaeological thought.
b. Americanist archaeology is today very diverse, representing many different theoretical perspectives; there is no single, defining, dominating trend.
c. Whatever public interest and involvement that archaeology once experienced has dramatically diminished; archaeology as a discipline is at the risk of extinction.
d. Archaeology today, as it was throughout the entire history of Americanist archaeology, is heavily dominated by white males, with virtually no involvement by woman and other minorities.
e. A single defining trend dominates archaeology today.