In conversation with Professors Colin Renfrew and John Barrett part 3
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John poses concerns about the state of current archaeology - in terms of whether it succeeds in conveying its value to the wider world as being the one discipline that can understand the true depth and duration of human history. He also questions whether it is succeeding in understanding the recent wealth of data available to it that has resulted from extensive developer funded research, particularly archaeologists' ability to construct broader generalisations about humanity, and whether this in turn will lead to questions of whether the discipline is failing in this respect.
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