Is Archaeology a Science?
John Maddox chairs a discussion between Professor Glyn Daniel and Professor Colin Renfrew who believes that ' archaeology is more than just piecing together a jigsaw puzzle and trying to re-create a picture just as if we'd been there.' Professor Renfrew suggests that we are now in a position to perceive regularities in the past and so make predictions which substantiate the claim ' that archaeology is a science in the fullest sense of the word '.
Editor THELMA RUMSEY followed by an interlude