1st Edition

Making Time The Archaeology of Time Revisited

By Gavin Lucas Copyright 2021
154 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's seminal volume The Archaeology of Time , synthesizing them for a new generation of scholars. The general understanding of time held by both archaeologists and non-archaeologists is often very simple: a linear notion where time flows along a... Read more

Prologue: Time after time;  1. Time matters;  2. The archaeological clock;  3. Time scales;  4. The shape of time;  5. The same time;  6. Another time;  7. The archaeological time machine;  Epilogue: Making history

Biography

Gavin Lucas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Iceland. His main interests lie in archaeological method and theory as well as the archaeology of the modern world, with a special focus on the North Atlantic.