Cover -- Contents -- 1. Alternative Narratives and the Ethics of Representation -- 2. Creating Narrativesof the Past as Recombinant Histories -- 3. Authoritative and Ethical Voices -- 4. The Chacoan Past -- 5. Landscape -- 6. Archaeologists as Storytellers -- 7. Constructive Imagination and the Elusive Past -- 8. The Archaeologist as Writer -- 9. Eleven Minutes and Forty Seconds in the Neolithic -- 10. The Talking Potsherds -- 11. Limits of Archaeological Emplotments from the Perspective of Excavating Nazi Extermination Centers -- 12. From Imaginations of a Peopled Past to a Recognition of Past People -- 13. Wrestling with Truth -- Contributors -- Index.