“The recognition as well as interpretation of
archaeological evidence will always be biased and
incomplete. There can be no archaeologically
achieved final truths or wholly objective
interpretations. But to recognize such limitation is
not to reduce the subject to a set of mere
perceptual constructs. Archaeology is a societal
activity that embodies both the residues of its past
and its changing attitudes towards the past. We call
the residues evidence and the attitudes
interpretation. The continuing dialogue between the
two enables archaeology, always open to new
questions, to reveal new knowledge.”