An appreciation of Irving Benjamin Rouse -- PART ONE: PREHISTORY: A DISCIPLINE AND MODES OF INQUIRY -- Some theoretical issues in the archaeological study of historical reality -- Artifact classes, association and seriation -- Archaeological potential of anthropological and scientific models of function -- The churches on the Green: A cautionary tale -- Toward a formal account of Bantu ceramic manufacture -- Contracts, bureaucrats and research: Some emerging problems of conservation archaeology in the United States -- A conceptual framework for the sociology of archaeology -- PART TWO: PREHISTORY: THE CONTENT OF THE PAST -- Aboriginal human overkill of game populations: Examples from interior North Alaska -- Technological change in northern Alaska -- Trade beads and sunken ships -- An archaeological demonstration of migration on the northern Great Plains -- The strategy of Iroquoian prehistory -- The archaeological phase: Ethnographic fact or fancy? -- Recent research in Venezuelan prehistory -- Provenience studies of majolica pottery: Type Ichtucknee Blue on Blue -- Biographical notes.