… I argue that a process of creating narratives permeates archaeology from the initial
moments of investigation of sites through to the production of texts, a term which should be …

… in doing archaeology. One theme in these concerns is the way archaeologists write, for our
choice of words tells the reader — as well as the facts of the matter — of the writer's ideas, …

… archaeology, this can mean either the whole archaeological community (interconnected by
the subject of study, that is, archaeological finds and archaeological language in … a dialogue …

… Yet if we accept that no language can adequately and fully represent the world or the past, …
single‐voiced texts, even if archaeologists can never achieve any genuine dialogue with their …

… In what language (tongue) should archaeologists … : their own language, or a common
language, whatever that is … that a dialogue with colleagues who believe they write ‘objective’ …

… archaeologists are perforce involved. Joyce argues too that we are always already engaged
in dialogues … The question then becomes: how should we, as archaeologists, produce our …

… The link between language and epistemology is not the preserve of postmodern literary …
ways of interpreting the archaeological record, but also an actual dialogue and cross-fertilization …

… This is a book about writing: about the fundamental practice that infuses every stage of the
archaeological project and has implications in the very crafting of our own subjectivity, our …

… Joyce claims that her book is able to show archaeologists how to make archaeological
language more multivocal and recover the multitude of stories which create archaeological …

… to a final archaeological site report I wrote, with language recognizable and familiar to those
… are forged out of dialogue across various stakeholders, archaeologists need to take into …