Questions that Will Count in the Future: Global Perspectives on Historical Archaeology

At the Annual Meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology held in Savannah, Georgia in 1987, the plenary session of the meetings was devoted to ‘Questions that Count’. The goal of the session was to discuss substantive, methodological, epistemological, and theoretical questions that a small group of practitioners in the field had found useful in framing their own research. Copies of these papers were published in the society journal in 1988. Since that time the field of Historical Archaeology has grown in scope and influence. With an increasingly global reach Historical Archaeology is expanding into new geographical areas and pursuing ever more sophisticated theoretical and historical questions. This session presents a series of perspectives that reflect different theoretical and regional issues that may serve to expand the intellectual breadth of the field as a whole. In some instances co-authored presentations are designed to develop comparative perspectives that can hopefully serve as models for research across the globe.