- A - Antiquarianism - Collecting old things because they're interesting. Almost totally condemned by modern theorists.
- B - Baby - Usually thrown out with the bathwater by post-modernists.
- C - Contextualists - Archaeologists who look at data from all angles, and then write what they were going to write in the first place.
- D - Digging - An archaic mechanism of investigation disdained by the modern theorist.
- E - Ego - Compulsory for attendance at TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) conferences.
- F - Funding - A mythical ritual only rarely practiced on UK sites, more commonly found in America.
- G - Gamble, C. (2004) Archaeology; the basics. London: Routledge. - The best introduction to archaeological theory around. Easy to read and little jargon.
- H - History - Rarely mentioned in works of archaeological theory.
- I - Ian Hodder - Former theorist, now buried at Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
- J - Jargon - Words such hermeneutics, homeorhesis, isochrestic and uniformitarianism crop up in archaeological theory far more often than necessary.
- K - Kossina, Gustav - The most repulsive theorist - racist, ultra-nationalistic and prominent in archaeology conducted by the Third Reich.
- L - Landscape - Possibly theorists' favourite buzzword in the last twenty years.
