The time has come for ‘civilisation’ to be reintroduced. Historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists have overcome the critical suspicion mounted by so-called post-modernists and post-structuralists of any long narrative or of empirically based theory. Combinations of the three disciplines, by both students and researchers, have survived and they now flourish. In any case, from the 1970s of early post-ism, anthropology has increasingly included history, the study of documents and archaeological remains that predate but inform the present studied by lived experience, observation, conversation, and interview.