ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some of the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is about problems and difficulties, and for that reason it may seem both depressing in approach and didactic in character. If, instead of dealing with problems and difficulties, we had recounted the achievements of co-ordination, this book might have been more like a triumphal progress and less like an excursion into the vale of shadows. Specialization finds complete and overwhelming justification in the results it has produced, and the only point that here calls for emphasis is that there is no conflict between specialization and co-ordination. It is necessary to practise in each field, as a historian tackling historical problems in the field of history, as an archaeologist tackling archaeological problems in the field of archaeology and as a philologist tackling linguistic problems in the field of place-names.
