ABSTRACT
This book is the result of a collision between three individuals with similar concerns and research interests-all relating to the management of archaeologybut widely differing ideas as to what they were about and how to proceed with them. As discussion proceeded between these three-John Carman of Cambridge University, Malcolm Cooper of English Heritage and Antony Firth of the University of Southampton-it became clear that they all knew of others with similarly divergent views in their field. The immediate consequence was two conference sessions, and out of them this book. We were all three driven by the reluctance of archaeologists to identify management issues as central to the discipline and to debate them as vociferously as other issues. We all saw this reluctance among our colleagues as having serious implications for the discipline, and this volume has been brought together to help stimulate the debate we feel is necessary.
