ABSTRACT
The teaching of archaeology in English secondary schools (ages 11 to 16) in practice means the teaching of history. This is neither desirable nor, in the long term, necessary; it is dictated by subject specialism within secondary schools, particularly in the upper school (14 to 16). In primary education, by contrast, all the teachers in a school can participate in an archaeology project and bring their own specialist interests to bear on the work in hand (Stone 1986).
