01803nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001260004400042100001600086700002500102700002800127700002600155245005400181300001200235520137600247020002201623       2023                            d  bSpringer International PublishingaCham1 aIsto Huvila1 aCesar Gonzalez-Perez1 aPatricia Martin-Rodilla1 aMarta Pereira-Fariña00aThe Social Production of Discourse in Archaeology  a115-1363 aArchaeology is a profoundly social and collaborative enterprise. Even if it is a discipline of things, archaeology is also a discipline of discourses of things. The making of new archaeological information and knowledge both leans on and weaves a conversation of the past that is fundamentally as social as it is material. These conversations traverse an immense spectrum of archaeological practices and contexts far beyond archaeology itself. This chapter provides an overview of how discourses are produced in archaeology, their characteristics and contemporary facets, and how studying the social production of archaeological discourse(s) is helpful for understanding archaeology and archaeological knowledge. Discourse refers not only to talking or writing about archaeology but documenting, communicating and conveying archaeology, archaeological information and knowledge in diverse means, and by doing that, influencing archaeological practices and the production of archaeological knowledge. The chapter starts by asking where contemporary archaeological discourse is produced and continue to inquiring into who participates and who are left out, how to analyse and explain archaeological discourses, what characterises them, and finally, why understanding the social production of archaeological discourse can be useful for archaeologists and non-archaeologists.  a978-3-031-37156-1