Archeology as a science is the product of the conscience change in mankind caused by the advent of modernity. However, contrary to other Social Sciences, its status as a scientific does not lie in the formation of the modernity, but is its consequence. On the other hand, if we understand modernity as the climax of Enlightenment, pos-modernity can be understood as the rise of a reality light which is hidden by materiality. Such reality has theory as the basis of science virtual knowledge. Archaeology, like quantum physics and psychoanalysis, is one of the sciences that grasp the hidden light of this new reality. The light concealed by History. What's its consequence?
Enlightenment; Modernism; Science's History; Archeaology