ABSTRACT
Multi-disciplinary applications benefit not only the target-subject, but also the subject that is applied to it. For example, logic, when brought into archaeology, can derive new insight for archaeology respecting logic’s own developments. Such a conception is applicable to a range of semantically informative physical objects that have been used as signs in the external world. Archaeologists impose their patterns of rationality on data and their discourses, just as literary expositors do. ‘General theory’ is the framework of systematic analysis now being developed to imply conjectural knowledge about the societies that left the archaeological residue in the excavations. Theology should be isolated in analysis from archaeological investigation much more than it is. The logics and virtual reality of film are of some assistance, since its employment of visual metaphor parallels some ancient religious uses of images.
