Funny: I always saw archaeology as being tied more closely to geology than to history; at least since 1859.
Then again: how do you judge his "popularity"? is that solely within, say, British academic archaeology, or also within CRM, etc.?

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Despite the popularity of Olivier’s scholarship, and a community of strong supporters of his paradigms, there are still many archaeologists who allow history to guide their research, or who treat archaeological matter as nothing more than vestiges of an earlier era. In light of the concept of Bolder Theory, this session aims to bring together scholarship on these topics, addressing the themes of material memory, archaeological time as multilinear, and the nature of archaeological research in light of this work. We also welcome scholarship on the relationship between contemporary archaeological research and traditional historicist narratives.