Afterword: On Intersecting Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology

Although assuredly obvious to most readers, it is worth noting that the topics covered here were but a subset of the possibilities, and by no means a complete accounting of the places where archaeology could inform psychology. Explicitly as well as implicitly then, the purpose of this chapter has been to call for more interdisciplinary exchange between psychology and archaeology. In author's introduction, they suggested psychology’s relationship with cognitive science as a potential model for how it might best stand alongside cognitive archaeology, but admittedly that may be presumptive. If the psychologists who want to engage with cognitive archaeology are not perceived as careful scholars, then a more collaborative future becomes imperiled. As the authors first considered in the Introduction and as both Malaforuris and Pettitt affirm, interdisciplinary work is grand in the abstract, but challenging in practice.