In 1980 it was stated that "It should be apparent that many more descriptive reports will be required, from different types of sites and different periods, before specific models can be formulated for either the frontier or urban Chinese experience" (Greenwood 1980:119). LaLande (1981:343) a year later noted "Chinese site archaeology may soon reach a point of redundancy in certain aspects of the material culture " Felton et al. (1984:3) found that "Although we have witnessed a number of archaeological investigations of overseas-Chinese sites in recent years, many of these sites date to the 1880s and later, or have yielded only small collections." Greenway (1985:7) has commented on the obvious need for additional comparative studies of Chinese and Euro-American mining sites. Lastly, Smith (1983:11) has urged: "But as archaeology is strongly characterized by a synthetic and comparative orientation, the most useful delineations of cultural patterning are recognized as evolving out of the union of multiple studies directed toward common research questions."