ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a series of generalizations. In archaeology people are very good at separating things out for study to the extent that, it can be argued, they have the sub disciplines of landscape archaeology, architectural history, and material culture studies. They also have a fraught relationship between theory and archaeological evidence to contend with. Of course, there have been, and there still are, many archaeologists who effectively negotiate these divisions, but the problem of their existence is still concrete. In Barrett and Kinnes's volume there is a chapter by Chris Evans in which he argues that causewayed enclosures should be understood as "acts of enclosure". The architect Jeremy Till has taken things a step further and argued that architecture is contingent as a discipline and as a practice it depends on so many things. In his view a dependent architecture, and the contingent nature of architectural practice, should be seen as an opportunity for creativity and future work.
