The "Annales" School and Archaeology, edited by J. Bintliff, New York University Press, New York, 1991

At a superficial level we could argue that application of conceptsof the French "Annales"  School of History to archaeology merely amounts to yet anothersemantic game, new fad, old wine in new skins. Some of the studies of this slimcollection do seem a bit contrived, consisting of attempts to fit particular evidence(mainly from classical archaeology) into one or more of Braudel's three categories ortemporal constructs: evenements, conjunctures  and structures de longue duree. Doesarchaeology advance in its unending search for some new truth by merely borrowing andapplying terms that have common in Continental history for at least a halfcentury