I have often disagreed with Richard Hodges, and I still do. For his part, he has disagreed with me equally often. This good-natured sparring, between friends, has gone on in one-to-one argument, in public discussion, and in print for nearly forty years, since we worked together in Molise in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it will, I hope, long continue. We disagree over detail, and over theoretical and middle-range economic models; but the heart of our disagreement is that I cannot and will not, however many forays I make into the field of archaeology, stop thinking like a….
