ABSTRACT
Archaeology was perhaps more consistently conservative in this respect than its sister (sub)disciplines. Although there was always a general audience for pop archaeology most of the source material came out in what was charmingly known as the "grey literature": museum, governmental and contract agency reports, and series. Certainly the One World Archaeology series, being as it is the "proceedings" of the World Archaeological Congress held at Southampton in 1986, could have been yet another of these monuments to boredom like so many of its predecessors. In one broad and generous sweep, the One World Archaeology series has restored the dialogue. And the interest is that the move came from archaeology, not from anthropology. Also, in both archaeology and anthropology generally there were the periodic "Proceedings" produced by the large international societies, which were simply the bound papers presented at the huge international meetings.
