ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illustrates various ways of investigating those structures that functionally contribute to the reproduction of sociality, and the attendant relations of dominance/discrimination and resistance/transgression. Archaeology is a social practice. Sociality emerges through the continuation of communication, and communication requires mutual expectations and the material media that attends these expectations. Archaeology, similar to almost all other academic disciplines, was established as an essential component of modern social formation. Throughout the world, archaeologists are prodding the edges of the discipline, shaping it so that it serves the proper purpose that they, individually, choose for it. Like a chameleon, archaeology has the capacity to adapt to the world around it, and the changes in archaeology often parallel changes in society. The potential of social archaeologies is limitless and its implications are global.
