Archaeology as Product

This chapter explores what it is that archaeology and archaeologists make, returning us to the idea of archaeology as a craft first introduced in Chap. 1 . What archaeology makes is not limited to understandings of the past, presented in reports and other written and drawn outputs, but also new ways of thinking about our own present and the construction of futures. It also creates categories of person and notions of time, as well as ideas of how humans relate to the material world which we inhabit. Archaeology is thereby shown to be a philosophical discipline in the fullest sense.