Time in archaeology : time perspectivism revisited / edited by Simon Holdaway and LuAnn Wandsnider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holdaway, Simon.

Wandsnider, LuAnn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Methodology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Time.

Time perspective.

Archaeology and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In archaeology, time is used to convey a wide range of meanings with common usage in just a couple of senses.Thus, we students of time must devote considerable time to establishing the timing of past events, the lapse of time, and learning about times past.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Time in Archaeology: An Introduction

2. Time Perspectivism: Origins and Consequences

3. Time Perspectivism and the Interpretive Potential of Palimpsests: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations of Assemblage Formation History and Contemporaneity

4. Lower Paleolithic Industries, Time, and the Meaning of Assemblage Variation

5. Time-Averaged Deposits and Multitemporal Processes in the Wyoming Basin, Intermontane North America: A Preliminary Consideration of Land Tenure in Terms of Occupation Frequency and Integration

6. Investigating Persistent Places in the Northern Great Plains, Central North Dakota

7. Assemblage Accumulation as a Time-Dependent Process in the Arid Zone of Western New South Wales, Australia

8. Time Averaging and the Structure of Late Pleistocene Archaeological Deposits in Southwest Tasmania

9. Time Perspectivism and the Structure of Archaeological Records: A Case Study

10. No Time like the Present

11. Paradigms and Metaphysics, or "Is this the End of Archaeology as we Know It?"

References Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60781-792-6

OCLC:

503441242