ABSTRACT
In this final chapter, the authors review the major themes of the book, arguing that archaeology is at its most powerful when it acts to create new ways of thinking about the past and the present. This chapter summarizes the previous nine chapters, placing special attention on the objects and theories highlighted in Chapters 2 through 9 and the lessons that they offer. The final part of the chapter deals with two related topics. The first of these is the role of humanist Man and the importance of being not only post-dualist and posthumanist, but also post-anthropocentric. In turn, this leads to a discussion of decolonization and the place of Indigenous thought in the arguments explored throughout the book. The authors conclude that archaeology has much to offer the worlds of today and tomorrow, both as a challenge to the ways that people think and as a way of working with—and understanding—the material world.
