Never in the history of archeology at a local and global level have so many research projects been developed; the magnitude of the figures invested today in the sponsorship of archaeological investigations far exceeds any precedent in the history of the discipline. However, this investigative boom, this growing "quantity of knowledge", this magnified production of data is experienced in parallel with one of the worst "fundamental crises" that archaeological knowledge has ever had. Criticism today corrodes to the foundations the edifice of archaeological knowledge built by empiricist visions, which, protected by a claim to objectivity and a positive and narrow scientific understanding, wanted to lead archeology on the path of 'essential truths', reducing it in practice to a thoughtless, uncritical discourse, cornered in its narrow cage and at the service of masters that it pretends to ignore. The multiplicity of theories that dispute today the predominance of being an appropriate framework for the construction of archaeological knowledge gives a clear account of the scope of the criticism and the depth of the crisis.