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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838400203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2008

ISBN

1-60781-792-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Altri autori (Persone)

HoldawaySimon

WandsniderLuAnn

Disciplina

930.101

Soggetti

Archaeology - Methodology - Philosophy

Time

Time perspective

Archaeology and history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.