ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on just three of these: Any interpretation that does not somehow relate what is being displayed or described to something within the personality or experience of the visitor will be sterile. Information, as such, is not Interpretation. More detailed information, a better understanding of the archaeology, can follow once the visitor has been hooked and their interest provoked by good interpretation. Interpretation is revelation based upon information. Most archaeologists now reject the view that our subject is an objective science with only one the correct possible interpretation of our excavations and fieldwork. But they are entirely different things. However, all interpretation includes information. The team was multi-disciplinary, including archaeologists, curators, educationalists, interpreters and designers. The chief aim of interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. This chapter has touched upon many of the issues discussed in more detail in the following chapter's conservation, interpretation, education, tourism and media.
