ABSTRACT
Archaeology has a great future. As long as there are people on earth, the places they live in and the artifacts they use will leave traces. The archaeologists of the future will always have work to do! There are so many new research techniques becoming available, and so many discoveries being made today that our understanding of the past is becoming richer all the time. As the chapters in this volume clearly set out, in many parts of the world the techniques of archaeology already allow the past history (and prehistory) of a country to be pieced together: built up and established on the basis of the material remains, even when written records are not abundant or lacking altogether. In most other areas that position will be reached in the next twenty or thirty years.
