What does archaeology deal with?

Archaeological artefacts open up the world and demand that we transcend our current consciousness and language. Archaeological discourses that do not change in the face of these new realities cancel the world by perpetuating it unchanged. Things happened and happened in a concrete way. They may have gone through certain possibilities, suffered accidents or unsuspected contingencies, but the passing of all this incorporated, avoided or rejected things, in one way and not another. However much we may know that our projections of the future fail and we are unable to forecast events of consequent necessity, the fact is that what happened did happen in a certain way. There is much more to be discovered than what we share so far, and therein lies our hope.