ABSTRACT
Stephanie Koerner’s session on iconoclasm held at the EAA conference in Cork in 2005 got me thinking about imagery in archaeology, especially the graphics we use in both documentation and publication. I had already been working on various ideas about the iconography of stratigraphic profiles and their schematic representation in the form of the Harris matrix, but I’ve also been vaguely concerned about the accuracy, precision and-ultimately-objectivity implied by the use of computer graphics. In the following I really want to talk about the power of imagery, specifically the transformation into icon; hence iconography and-as in Cork-iconoclasm.
