A DICTIONARY OF ARCHAEOLOGY
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loginThe principal aim of this dictionary is to providereaders with a reference tool for the terms, tech-niques and major sites in archaeology, but it is alsointended to reflect the constant state of flux in thediscipline. This is a difficult balancing act in a con-cise volume. Presenting archaeology as a processrather than as a body of knowledge implies thatparticular sites, cultures, methodologies and con-ceptual models must also be described in a way thatis in some sense ‘provisional’ and open to change.The degree to which the entries succeed in thisvaries from one subject area to another, but we hopethat the book as a whole conveys a sense of the chal-lenges, ambiguities and theoretical context ofarchaeology as well as the surveyed and excavateddata.
