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Volume 31, Number 4, August-October 1990 1 469 exempt on this count.) Relaying international theoreti- cal trends and interpreting them in the light of local circumstances is also given ample space (R. Meszaros, 'A terkapcsolatok CrtelmezCsCnek nChany osszefiig- gese,' no. Gulacsi and J. Nemes Nagy, 'Regionalitas Cs telepiilCsszerkezet [egy shift-analysis eredmCnyei],' no. 2, pp, 21-35), but the papers on cur- rent problems of society and economy from a regional perspective are of most immediate interest and origi- nality.

Archaeology: The Key Concepts is the ideal reference guide for students, teachers and anyone with an interest in archaeology. Colin Renfrew is Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. Paul Bahn is a freelance writer, translator and broadcaster on archaeology.

From the Study of Its Past, Optimism about Archaeology's Future CURTIS N. RUNNELS Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. 02215, U.S.A 2 11 90 A History of Archaeological Thought.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. $59.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. My feeling that archaeology had been drifting during the past decade-exhausted, perhaps, after the tumult of the 1960s and 1970s-was dispelled by reading Trigger's re- freshing and optimistic vision of its next stage, a vision based on a thorough and far-reaching analysis of the ori- gins and development of archaeological thought. Paradoxically, archaeologists often remain unconscious of the future of their discipline and indifferent to its past. The fog and fable that cloak the early history of archaeology have only partially been dispersed by pioneering efforts in the history of the discipline, espe- cially by Daniel (e.g., 1976) and by Willey and Sabloff (1974).

These works are too often ignored by younger archaeologists, whose indifference to the history of ar- chaeological thought is no accident. During the upheav- als of the 1960s~ enthusiastic New Archaeologists re- jected the achievements of their predecessors, and time has not tempered this zeal: I have been repeatedly in- formed by colleagues, in all seriousness, that there is no point in studying the history of archaeology, for nothing of importance was written about method and theory be- fore Walter Taylor or, for some extremists, before Lewis Binford. A History of Archaeological Thought should convince the most skeptical reader of the importance of its sub- ject. The learning displayed in this work is astounding, providing evidence on every page that the author has collected materials for years and reflected deeply upon his subject. The scholarship is displayed, however, with- out effort or ostentation, and the reader is guided safely through the thorny and abstruse philosophical thickets. Trigger does not simplify, but he explains the most difficult of concepts with enviable precision. Perhaps the greatest strength of this work is the per- spective it brings to the discipline.

All of the trends, schools of thought, and individual contributions may be seen as embedded in a stream of thought that continues today. It is refreshing, for example, to find that Binford, that most outspoken and well-known advocate of the New Archaeology, makes his appearance only after nearly 300 pages, where his views on processual and evo- lutionary archaeology are seen to be firmly in the main- stream of American archaeological thinking-itself the result of decades, even centuries, of development. The book traces the development of archaeological thought from ancient times to the end of the 1980s; it achieves nothing less than a complete reevaluation of the discipline's purpose and goals.