Time and Archaeology

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-11762-3 (ISBN)

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This pioneering collection illustrates and explores the diversity of archaeological approaches to time. The contributors contrast a scientific understanding with social, cultural and religious ideas of time.

The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. 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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.9.1999
Reihe/Serie	One World Archaeology
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-11762-3 / 0415117623
ISBN-13	978-0-415-11762-3 / 9780415117623
Zustand	Neuware