THE PAST IN THINGS

The Past in Things is an invitation build a new and more capacious history of archaeology on the basis of these principles... This project cannot be the work of one, two, or three scholars. We have been exceptionally fortunate to draw upon the expertise of dozens of colleagues, within the academy and without. Their diverse approaches to our shared questions have enriched the investigation, and we remain as interested in exploring disagreements as common ground... Material remains of the past - ruins, fossils, relics, heirlooms - demand explanation in the present. The Past in Things confronts a fundamental question...