Time and Archaeology

This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors, which combine theoretical and empirical material. They illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to time. The contributors contrast between a scientific understanding of time and social, cultural and religious ideas of time, and show how both are important to archaeology.

List of illustrations

ix

List of contributors

xi

Preface

xiii

Introduction

1

(7)

Tim Murray

A return to the `Pompeii premise'

8

(20)

Tim Murray

Introduction

8

(1)

Archaeological records: time, scale, phenomenon

9

(6)

Archaeological records: reconstructionism and its discontents

15

(7)

Conclusions

22

(6)

Indian and other concepts of time: a holistic framework

28

(10)

D.P. Agrawal

V. Bhalakia

S. Kusumgar

Introduction

28

(1)

Archaeology and time

29

(1)

Cultural conditioning of the concept of time

30

(1)

Time in Indian philosophy

31

(3)

Finite time

34

(1)

Genetic distance and evolution

34

(1)

Time, physics and dissipative structures

35

(1)

Conclusions

36

(2)

Puranic time and the archaeological record

38

(23)

Michael A. Cremo

Graman Romantic chronology and its impact on the interpretation of prehistory

49

(9)

Frank Jolles

Summary and conclusion

58

(3)

Keeping industrial time

61

(19)

John Rule

Developing an Indian stone age chronology

80

(29)

Sheila Mishra

Introduction

80

(1)

Impact of radiocarbon dating of the Indian Palaeolithic

81

(1)

The Nevasian

82

(1)

Dating the Acheulian at Bori

83

(1)

British Archaeological Mission to Pakistan

84

(1)

The Soanian and the acheulian problem

85

(1)

Conclusions

86

(2)

Appraising the urban future: an archaeological time perspective

88

(1)

Roland Fletcher

Introduction

88

(1)

Rates of settlement growth

89

(4)

Behavioural parameters of viable community life: a model of interaction and communication stress

93

(3)

Low-density, dispersed settlements

96

(1)

The nature of settlement growth

96

(1)

Future urban growth

97

(8)

Conclusions

105

(4)

The Hochdorf `princely' grave and the question of the nature of archaeological funerary assemblages

109

(30)

Laurent Olivier

Introduction: the `princely' graves of the Late Hallstatt in European archaeology

109

(3)

The organization of funerary space in the Hochdorf grave

112

(6)

The funerary assemblage: a superimposition of different meanings?

118

(2)

The archaeological sequencing of the constitution of the assemblage of grave goods

120

(7)

The interpretation of the Hochdorf grave and the question of archaeological temporalities

127

(5)

Perspectives: the nature of archaeological funerary assemblages

132

(1)

Conclusions

133

(6)

The times of history: archaeology, narrative and non-linear causality

139

(25)

James Mcglade

Introduction

139

(2)

Archaeological times

141

(3)

Chronological versus kairological time

144

(2)

Historiography and the time of narrative

146

(1)

From linear to non-linear causality

147

(3)

The structure of disorder

150

(2)

Archaeology and non-linear dynamics

152

(2)

Social--natural co-evolution

154

(1)

Characteristic scales of human eco-dynamic phenomena--embedded times

155

(2)

Towards an alternative archaeological narrative: a model of `contingent necessity'

157

(1)

A reflexive conclusion: archaeology as long-term history

158

(6)

Index

164

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