The cleverest aspect of this clever little book is Hannah Green's on-going discourse (mostly with her nephew) about the history and theory of archaeology. Without really noticing, the reader is treated to an erudite and often very humorous explanation ofsuch topics as cultural resource management (CRM), the New or Processual Archaeology of Lewis Binford and his followers, Marxist-influenced archaeology, and other postprocessual archaeologies. I was completely captivated by the book when Praetzellis (or Hannah Green) presented a cogent and understandable description of postmodernism in archaeology. I believe that any author who can even make me think I could ever understand postmodernism is a genius of the writing profession! This is simply a book thatis fun to read and from which the reader can actually learn a lot about the academic discipline of archaeology. It could certainly be included in any college level introductory archaeology class as a welcomed humorous and often even ribald supplement tothe usually dry as dust (you'll pardon the expression) standard textbook.