Time and Archaeology

Tim Murray

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English

Routledge
23 September 1999

Archaeological theory; Archaeological methodology & techniques; Time (chronology), time systems & standards

Series: One World Archaeology

This survey of time and archaeology includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors and combines 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. While much archaeological research into time has focused on the key issue of attempting to understand how people in the past had different concepts of time, this collection also shows how developing a fundamental understanding of archaeological time is central to all archaeology, and impacts on its theory and practice.

Edited by: Tim Murray
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: annotated edition
Volume: V.37
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780415117623
ISBN 10: 0415117623
Series: One World Archaeology
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 23 September 1999
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Introduction 1 A return to the ‘Pompeii premise’ 2 Indian and other concepts of time: a holistic framework 3 Puranic time and the archaeological record 4 German Romantic chronology and its impact on the interpretation of prehistory 5 Keeping industrial time 6 Developing an Indian stone age chronology 7 Appraising the urban future: an archaeological time Perspective 8 The Hochdorf ‘princely’ grave and the question of the nature of archaeological funerary assemblages 9 The times of history: archaeology, narrative and non-linear causality

Tim Murray is Professor of Archaeology at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.