ABSTRACT
This has been a book about documentary images in archaeology and how they form part of a distinctive visual culture that can be traced over time. One test of the usefulness of its various case studies is whether the key issues can be compressed and combined into a single trajectory or line of development that not only links past imaging practices to those of the present, but also enables speculation about future directions. By so speculating, the discussion ahead breaks away from the historical stance of the foregoing chapters.
