ABSTRACT
One of the fashionable ideas in archaeology at the moment is that of a so-called ‘world historical archaeology’. The call to construct an archaeology uniting all geographical areas where documentary and material evidence can be combined has been voiced in several forums. We see it most notably in the meetings of the World Archaeological Congress and in the One World Archaeology publications, as well as in the writings of some archaeologists on the East Coast of the United States (Falk 1991: viii; Orser 1996).
