It is difficult to imagine modern archaeology without radio-carbon
dating, geophysics, analytical chemistry, or the input of the social and
historical sources. Archaeology is inevitably an interdisciplinary
enterprise, perhaps more so than any other field. But with the
ever-increasing specialisation of modern research in general, it becomes
more and more difficult to communicate across disciplinary doundaries;
this is one of the major challenges modern archaeology faces today. This
volume is the outcome of a two-day conference held at the University of
Oxford that focused on the opportunities and challenges of
interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology.