If you locate the particle in space nothing can be known about it's momentum, conversely if the momentum is known you cannot locate it in space. The only way in which to understand the interactions of particles is by taking a more holistic view of looking for patterns in the whole based on probabilities, rather than trying to determine objective facts about the particular. Yet out of the same bricks we may construct a factory, a palace, or a cathedral . The developments in the microwear analysis of stone tools are a good example of the changes that are occurring in Archaeology generally and in lithic studies in particular. An extension of this trend in the future may be the placing of lithic studies within the awareness of Complexity enabling archaeology to deal with large scale developments rather than particular events.
Chaos breaks across the lines of separate scientific disciplines.
An example of this crisis of specialization in archaeology can be seen from the two latest re-interpretations of the Mesolithic site of Star Carr.