Environmental Archaeology is Dead: Long Live Bioarchaeology, Geoarchaeology and Human Palaeoecology

Abstract

To seek hard and fast definitions of anything, let alone getting embroiled in debates about them, is not exactly my cup of tea. However, having been asked so very politely — but insistently — by the editor to write a brief commentary on Jonathan Driver’s provocative article on the nature of environmental archaeology, I am resolved to try to do my best — and my briefest.