Time and history in prehistory /

"Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualised and constructed, challenging the perception of prehistoric societies as a-historical. Drawing equally on contemporary theory and illustrative case-studies and firmly rooted in material...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Souvatzi, Stella G., Baysal, Adnan, Baysal, Emma L.
Format: Printed Book
Published: London: Routledge 2019
Subjects:
Prehistoric peoples.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Space and time.
Table of Contents:
  • Is there pre-history? / Stella Souvatzi, Adnan Baysal, Emma L. Baysal
  • The Uexküll calibration: chronology and critical flicker fusion frequency / Douglass Bailey
  • Scales and telescopes: optics in the study of prehistory / Cristian Simonetti
  • Ontology unveiled, serpents remembered, time reconfigured / Peter R. Schmidt
  • Periodization in archaeology: starting in the ground / Gavin Lucas
  • Locked in the Neolithic between evolution and history / Trevor Watkins
  • Illustrating waves of time in prehistory and the annales' solution / John Bintliff
  • What kind of history in prehistory? / Alex Bayliss and Alasdair Whittle
  • Concepts of time and history on Chalcolithic tell settlements and Trypillia mega-sites / John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska
  • Prehistoric histories of Hohokam kin groups / Bradley E. Ensor
  • Hyperobjects and prehistory / Graham Harman
  • Time matters: faces, externalised knowledge and transcendence / Barbara Adam and Sandra Kemp
  • "I make this standing stone to be a sign": material presence and the temporality of the trace in Highland Madagascar / Zoë Crossland
  • Contested history-making as part of the building of social networks at Neolithic C̦atalhöyük, Turkey / Ian Hodder
  • Primevalism: saluting a renamed prehistory / Penelope J. Corfield.

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