6th February 2006, 06:38 PM
I agree entirely with these remarks. I think archaeology is at its most useful when dealing with situations where the "'official' written records do not correspond to the sad historic facts". Unfortunately, despite deepdigger's optimism, any branch of human society is a long way off recording history in an entirely objective fashion.
Not that archaeology is objective either, of course!
Not that archaeology is objective either, of course!