Much of my work in archaeology can be described as critical theory. It deals with the following themes

- connections between the past and present
- disciplinary reflexivity and the history of archaeology
- the politics of archaeology
- archaeology as a mode of cultural production
- communities of archaeologists and their discipline
- temporality, history and historiography

publications

Social Theory and Archaeology
Polity Press, 1987, University of New Mexico Press, 1988

Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice
with Christopher Tilley
Cambridge University Press, 1987, Second edition: Routledge, 1992

Reading the signs
in I.Bapty and T.Yates (eds), Archaeology after Structuralism
London, Routledge, 1990

Archaeology into the 1990s
with Christopher Tilley
Norwegian Archaeological Review 22.1 (1989)

Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology
Routledge, 1991

Archaeological realities: embodiment and a critical romanticism
in M. Tusa and T. Kirkinen (eds) The Archaeologist and his/her Reality: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic TAG Conference, 1992
Helsinki, Department of Archaeology, 1995

Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
edited with Ian Hodder, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas
Routledge, 1995

The craft of archaeology
with Randall McGuire
American Antiquity 61: 75-88 (1996)

Classical Archaeology: Experiences of the Discipline
Routledge,1996

Relativism, objectivity and the politics of the past
with the Lampeter Archaeology Workshop
Archaeological Dialogues 4: 164–184 (1997)

L’archéologie et le passé contemporain: un paradigme
in A. Schnapp (ed), Une Archéologie du Passé Récent?
Paris, Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, 1997