In turn, the data offer up new levels upon which to build an understanding of the interpretation and its framework - reducing ambiguity and providing a deeper understanding. Such a circular, reflexive relationship might widen the dialectic potential between the material and the readers of it - the act of interrogation, itself now more explicit, becomes a new and powerful tool. This has implications for us all. It will open up our interpretations to more detailed scrutiny, and we will in turn have to query our own data and question and face up to what we think it really means. Not totally obsolete.
Archaeologists still have an obligation to tell a story and to back it up with evidence.
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