caa a22 4500 388056487 CHVBK 20180307125108.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X0008710X doi S0003598X0008710X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X0008710X Pearson M. Parker Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England The beginning of wisdom [Elektronische Daten] [M. Parker Pearson] It is the best of times and it is the worst of times. On one hand, there are more resources and people involved in archaeology than ever before; there is considerable public and media interest in the subject; and there have been exciting developments in archaeologists' uses of social theory. On the other, competition is intense for locally scarce funding; most field research is constrained by non-archaeological considerations; and fragmentation, insecurity and disenchantment are rife. The split between theory and practice has certainly widened since David Clarke's day, whilst theory has become not so much Clarke's unifier within the morass of empirical detail but its own basis for division and often bitter disagreement within the profession. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/277(1998-09), 680-686 0003-598X 72:277<680 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X0008710X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X0008710X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pearson M. Parker Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/277(1998-09), 680-686 0003-598X 72:277<680 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge